Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Baptiste Grenier
Le 11/06/08 à 09:22, Zbigniew Szalbot téléscripta : Hello, Hello, Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 11 June 2008 10:20:30 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to generate a random

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat bin/genpwd #!/bin/sh dd if=/dev/urandom bs=8 count=1 2/dev/null |hexdump|cut -b

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread N. Raghavendra
At 2008-06-11T09:20:30+02:00, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to generate a random string of characters. One way is

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:20:30AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:20:30AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying existing ones? I am

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
One of the biggest problems with random passwords is that they end up written on yellow-stickies on the monitor or under the keyboard. there is no cure for that in FreeBSD. you need some non-computer hardware to stop that behaviour ;) ___

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Berry
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to generate a random string of characters. I know I

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Bill Campbell wrote: I much prefer apg which can generate more-or-less pronounceable passwords which it is possible to remember (at least after typing them a few times :-). This is not supposed to be an offense to any author of a password generator, but: Never, but never trust any random

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jun 11, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Bill Campbell wrote: One of the biggest problems with random passwords is that they end up written on yellow-stickies on the monitor or under the keyboard. I'm going to take this opportunity to preach. Everyone should be using a good password management system.

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Berry
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: I don't run FreeBSD on desktops so I haven't looked at the various tools available. On OS X, I use 1password which makes excellent use of the OS X Keychain system, and has terrific webbrowser integration. I'm fairly sure that the Apple Keychain libraries have been or

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread RW
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:53:56 -0400 Andrew Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying existing ones? I am looking

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:53:56PM -0400, Andrew Berry wrote: Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying existing ones? I am looking for

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jun 11, 2008, at 7:46 PM, Andrew Berry wrote: Any idea what the name of the project for the Security framework is? I can't seem to find anything on Google. I'd love to be able to access keychains from OS X on other platforms, without resorting to dumping everything to plaintext. This

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 02:17:59AM +0100, RW wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:53:56 -0400 Andrew Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually

RE: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jos Chrispijn Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 12:29 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: generating random passwords Bill Campbell wrote: I much prefer apg which can generate more