Mike Nolan wrote:
Your new password is 87&3jiwkjIJiwkjikmkq,^^2v12hqIwLbvCQQQi18152
Do not write it down or save it in a password manager, as doing so
creates security problems.
There is a solution here.
Initialize passwords with a random string. Flag these accounts as
"Password Tempora
On 8/18/05, Mike Nolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As I indicated in my original response, there is no best answer to the
> issue of password choices, though there are probably a few 'worst'
> answers. :-)
>
> Once someone has established a password scheme, either randomly generated
> or user s
> This way you can let users choose their own passwords :-)
>
> If you like you can put other checks in it to make sure you have any
> three of uppercase/lowercase/numbers/other characters or whatever else
> you like.
Allowing users to choose their own permanent passwords does not make them
any
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 15:54:40 -0600,
Edmund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Great! a simple, dumb program can generate all your passwords in very
> quickly. My 2.4 Ghz Pentium 4 did it in under 10 minutes. A token set of
> 16 characters, and a fixed length of 8 charachters just isnt a very
> Great! a simple, dumb program can generate all your passwords in very
> quickly. My 2.4 Ghz Pentium 4 did it in under 10 minutes. A token set of
> 16 characters, and a fixed length of 8 charachters just isnt a very big
> search space.
Your new password is 87&3jiwkjIJiwkjikmkq,^^2v12hqIwLbvCQQ
Edmund wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Joshua D. Drake") writes:
Fernando Lujan wrote:
Hi folks,
I have a table wich contains my users... I want to insert to each
user
a random password, so I need a random function. Is there such function
in Postgres? I just found the RANDOM which generate
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Joshua D. Drake") writes:
> Fernando Lujan wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > I have a table wich contains my users... I want to insert to each
> > user
> > a random password, so I need a random function. Is there such function
> > in Postgres? I just found the RANDOM which generates val
On 8/17/05, A. Kretschmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> select substring(md5(random()) from 5 for 15);
Thanks everybody, this solution will fullfill my needs... ;)
Sincerely,
Fernando Lujan
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am 17.08.2005, um 13:48:38 -0300 mailte Fernando Lujan folgendes:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have a table wich contains my users... I want to insert to each user
> a random password, so I need a random function. Is there such function
> in Postgres? I just found the RANDOM which generates values between
>
Hi Fernando;
I think that PL/Perl would be the easiest language to use in this case.
However, you could use PL/PGSQL and do something like:
1) Generate a random number (RANDOM()) and multiply it by a base value,
and add something to it to bring it within a certain range.
2) Look up the ASCII
Fernando Lujan schrieb:
>Hi folks,
>
>I have a table wich contains my users... I want to insert to each user
>a random password, so I need a random function. Is there such function
>in Postgres? I just found the RANDOM which generates values between
>0.0 and 1.0.
>
>Any help or suggestion will be
Fernando Lujan wrote:
Hi folks,
I have a table wich contains my users... I want to insert to each user
a random password, so I need a random function. Is there such function
in Postgres? I just found the RANDOM which generates values between
0.0 and 1.0.
Any help or suggestion will be appreciat
> I have a table wich contains my users... I want to insert to each user
> a random password, so I need a random function. Is there such function
> in Postgres? I just found the RANDOM which generates values between
> 0.0 and 1.0.
If you multiply that random number by a large integer and then trun
Hi folks,
I have a table wich contains my users... I want to insert to each user
a random password, so I need a random function. Is there such function
in Postgres? I just found the RANDOM which generates values between
0.0 and 1.0.
Any help or suggestion will be appreciated. :)
Fernando Lujan
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