Subject: Re: Password demands
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/23/2004 03:22:00
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:01:00AM -0600, Richard Rauch wrote:
> If I may make a suggestion:
>
> Perhaps if you attack this from the other side? Write a simple
> password *generator* that mixes vowels and consonants to produce
> something semi-pronouncible (but not a word). Then a second pass
> to sprinkle in some punctuation and numerals.
There's a standard for this. The code's not lovely, but you might
check out "apg", which claims to implement the standard.
Thor