On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 13:04:15 -0400 "Stewart C. Russell" <scruss@gmail.com> 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:
On 2016-06-02 12:13 PM, Alvin Starr wrote: 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
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