RE: how to write a password generator

2001-09-13 Thread Sally
Mike, There's a good example of a password script in Learning Perl on Win32 Systems page 17, not very pretty and a bit tedious, but easy to understand. Regards, Sally -Original Message- From: Mike Singleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 September 2001 14:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to write a password generator

2001-09-13 Thread Morbus Iff
>What resources can I look at to start writing a password generator from a >complete newbie level of knowledge?? If you want to mimic Unix passwd, do something like: $seed = (some randomly generated bit of something); $plaintext_password = "password"; $encrypted_password = crypt($p