[Gllug] Random password generation

[John Hearns]

Bruce Richardson wrote:

>I wrote a little script that generates random passwords and then put a 
>page on our intranet site so that our users could take advantage of it 
>(in the possibly vain hope of increasing user security a little).  It 
>offers several different ways to generate the passwords, not all of which 
>are massively safe but you can't force users to use passwords they just 
>won't remember and it's better than them all using "fred" or the name of 
>the season.
>
>So I'm looking for useful random password programs/mechanisms I can add. 
>Suggestions?
>
I use this password generator, which I found in an article in SysAdmin 
magazine.
http://www.multicians.org/thvv/gpw.html

which generates nonsense words which sound like English.
So it does the same sort of job you are thinking on.

The Java or C sources are available.









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