Re: Random Password Generator

1998-03-12 Thread John Reynolds
At 10:15 AM 3/12/98 -0800, you wrote: >Actually I believe Red Hat comes with it's own program to generate passwords >(it's part of expect) and called mkpasswd. Give it a try. Here's a little PERL hack I created to do multiple passwords (of your choosing): It's configured to output seven characte

Re: Random Password Generator

1998-03-12 Thread Sam Ockman
Actually I believe Red Hat comes with it's own program to generate passwords (it's part of expect) and called mkpasswd. Give it a try. -Sam On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 11:21:53PM -0600, Ryan McCowan wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Wesley W. Owen wrote: > > > Is there a way to get RHL5 to generate a

Re: Random Password Generator

1998-03-12 Thread Ryan McCowan
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Wesley W. Owen wrote: > Is there a way to get RHL5 to generate a random password when I create a > new user? Or, is it somewhere in passwd? Thanks for the help! > > Wes > It's pretty trivial in just about any language to write something to read bytes from /dev/random or