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Date:      Tue, 23 May 2000 09:29:26 +0200
From:      Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>
To:        Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How do I generate passwords?
Message-ID:  <20000523092926.R61764@draenor.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000523091219.mj@isy.liu.se>; from mj@isy.liu.se on Tue, May 23, 2000 at 09:12:19AM %2B0200
References:  <XFMail.000523091219.mj@isy.liu.se>

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There's a nifty little program called pwdgen.

Simply download it by using:

fetch ftp://ftp.komputom.com.pl/pub/Linux/secure/pwdgen-0.01.tar.gz

Then, just compile the small .c program and you have a password 
generator.

Perhaps someone could add it to the ports tree??  :)

Cheers,
Marc

On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 09:12:19AM +0200, Micke Josefsson wrote:
> Each beginning of a semester I create some 50 accounts on my server.
> Till now I have used a default password for every account, but I
> intend to give every student a unique password from now on. Question
> is: Are there any programs that help in producing passwords of any
> quality?
> 
> I imagine I could chop up, say, md5-checksums into ascii chars and
> remove the ones that don't fit this purpose etc. But if there already
> exists a program to do this job I'd rather use it.
> 
> /Micke
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> Michael Josefsson, MSEE
> mj@isy.liu.se
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