Re: random password

From: Doug O'Leary (dkoleary_at_olearycomputers.com)
Date: 06/25/04 

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 12:55:41 GMT

In article <3qcld0lh3pdhdibm0spk1rk1r5be8odabv@4ax.com>, Patrick wrote:

> Is there a way generate some random password in a script and directly
> change the password of a user. Al this in a script.

You'll need either expect or perl's expect module to change passwords
in a script. As far as generating random passwords, there's
plenty of scripts around that'll do that. A google search for
"random password generator" resulted in 205,000 hits. Adding script
to the search reduced the hit count to 97,500...

I've done this plenty of times for a variety of clients. It's not a
difficult script, but certainly not trivial especially if you're
building a reasonable amount of security into it.

Doug 

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