[4217] in Kerberos
Random Passwords?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James R. Hendrick)
Thu Nov 17 18:33:30 1994
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 18:20:02 -0500
From: "James R. Hendrick" <hendrick@ctron.com>
To: chall@nando.net
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Charles Hall's message of 17 Nov 1994 14:06:25 -0500 <3ag9jh$5j0@merlin.nando.net>
Date: 17 Nov 1994 14:06:25 -0500
From: chall@nando.net (Charles Hall)
Organization: NandO -- The News & Observer online service
Sender: usenet@cam.ov.com
Is there an easy way to generate random passwords? I tried the
RANDOM option to kdb-edit, but if it worked I couldn't tell. It
never bothered to tell ME what password it selected! Now THAT'S security!!
You'll need to roll-your-own on this one as far as I know. Shouldn't be too
hard. Use an array of all the charachters you want to use and index into it
using a pseudo random number generator. What is this for? If you want to get
your users to use "good" passwords, I would not issue "random" ones, but
rather prevent them from choosing extremely bad ones. There are a couple of
good proactive passwd programs if this would suit.
Jim
