[NCLUG] speaking of high school

Mike Loseke mike at verinet.com
Wed Feb 14 08:24:10 MST 2001


Thus spake Sean Reifschneider:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:02:36AM -0700, mike cullerton wrote:
> >   hope things are treating you well today. i have an algorithm/programming
> >question. what's the best way to generate a random password in code?
> 
> How about:
> 
> 	passwd = os.popen('gpw', 'r').readlines()[0]
> 
> gpw is a fine program that generates random passwords based on english
> letter combinations.  So, they tend to be things that SOUND like words,
> but aren't.

 Ooh, nice.

 /me thinks about writing a job to randomly change user's passwords at
random times...

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   Mike Loseke    | If at first you don't succeed,
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