Forcing password change on new users...

[Taavi Burns]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:02:10 -0500, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I, of course, used automation for this; I have a password generator
> integrated into JPilot's keyring plugin, and this does an eminently nice
> job of generating implausibly difficult to guess passwords.  And syncs
> them, in encrypted form, onto my Palm.  It's on a "post-it," albeit one
> that uses 3-DES...

I've found apg to be most helpful at work.

"""
       Default  algorithm is pronounceable password generation
algorithm designed
       by Morrie Gasser and described in A Random Word Generator  For 
Pronounce-
       able  Passwords National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
AD-A-017676.
       The original paper is very old and had never been put online,
so I have to
       use NIST implementation described in FIPS-181.
"""

By default apg returns 6 different passwords.  Choose the one that
looks good to you.
Or run it again and do the same. :)  I usually just use them for
ideas, and vary them
as necessary so that I'll remember them and so they'll be accepted by
the draconian
password rules we have at work.

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