From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 20 10:54:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA04489 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 10:54:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ogurok.com (ogurok.com [208.212.72.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04484 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 10:54:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oleg@ogurok.com) Received: from homepc (ppp07.pfmc.net [204.254.227.9]) by ogurok.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA08361; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 13:59:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from oleg@ogurok.com) Message-ID: <011601be14b8$385cdae0$09e3fecc@homepc> From: "Oleg Ogurok" To: "Andrzej Bialecki" Cc: , Subject: Re: Password generator Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:01:43 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Oleg Ogurok wrote: > >> > Hy, >> >I'm looking for a password generator. >> >Does anybody know where I can found one? >> > >> Well, you can look into a source code of DES, Kerberos, etc. >> Also, download Apache sources and look into "htpasswd" source. > >Hmmm.. I think he asked about something as routines present e.g. in SCO, >and used in their standard passwd(1) program - they are able to generate >passwords which are pronouncable (they even give example pronounciation), >but don't form any sensible word. > If he just need to generate random passwords, then it's really piece of cake to write that kind of program in perl or C. -Oleg. >Well, for now we don't have anything like this. > >Andrzej Bialecki > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message