On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 13:04:15 -0400 "Stewart C. Russell" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-06-02 12:13 PM, Alvin Starr wrote: > > A lot of years ago Jan Carlson wrote a userfriendly password > > generator. > Yes, that does look like Perl 4 from sometime last century. > If you have to make a password to meet the stupid 8 char requirement > you still sometimes see, this (nabbed from cmdlinefu, IIRC) works: > dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2>/dev/null | base64 | head -1 | cut -c4-11 > my favorite is:
date | md5sum | head -c8 - it's easy to remember :) > They're pretty hostile passwords it makes. I mostly use it to make > new, instantly-forgotten Amazon/Ebay/$GamingSite passwords for the > many, many people who mistakenly think their email address is my > gmail address. > bleh, i dislike riding in the short bus, but i require more info to process what you are saying - many, many people make accounts for you at Amazon/Ebay/$GamingSite with your gmail addy and then you go and create passwords? Andre > Stewart > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
