On 11/12/01 13:05, "Markus Rasch" <m.rasch_at_gmx.net> wrote:
>> Sorry, I was not clear. As I am software engineer, I need to generate
>> passwords for application, database and operating system users. Also I
>> am registered on a bunch of websites as developer etc. Nearly every
>> second day I find myself in need to make up a password. Will be nice to
>> have small program which will generate it for me. Also I found nice free
>> software for storing passwords called GeekSafe (
>> http://newtopia.com/cgi-bin/newton_index.cgi). Source codes are
>> available. I can imagine another feature of a software to generate
>> password. There is a few Perl scripts around which should be easy to
>> rewrite to NewtonScript.
>> Thanks for any thoughts,
>> Radek
>
> Are you sure you are using the word "generator" correct? A password generator
> _makes_
> passwords!
> Normaly password generators are used when you are making new user accounts for
> an
> Operating System or for specific Server access. For example, user "A" gets a
> new account
> to a machine, a password will be created automatically, which contains the
> users first and
> last name. So he can directly access the machine and change the automatically
> generated
> password, because it is known to any other user who knows user A's name).
> There is no need
> of an interaction between the user and the administrator. But it does only
> make sense to
> use this generator within the used software, for example the account manager
> software or
> the Server itself.
>
> You are refering to GeekSafe, this is more a password _store_ than a password
> generator.
> You can enter different passwords or accounts and "protect" them with only one
> password (a
> number). So you have to remember only this number to get access to your
> passwords and
> accounts.
If someone would have to use a lot of passwords, and would want to have
different passwords for all the systems that need one, I can imagine that
someone might use a "password generator" that would generate passwords. You
could even input some requirements, like it needs to be x number of
character long, or has to include at least 2 digits, etc.
Just a thought...
-Laurent.
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