Re: Need to generate passwords

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I ran into this problem, too. My solution is a little strange. I noticed that
"random" passwords just got put on the post-it's on the edge of the screen.
So they are self defeating.

Instead, we are using pass phrases. For example, a pass phrase might be "We a
re the hero of our own story" ( a quote by Mary McCarthy).

The associated password is wathooos (the first letter of each word in the
pass-phrase).

Need to have a numeric in there somewhere?

"Saint Patrick was born in 461 AD" yields spwbi4a as a password.

Even when the pass phrases are on post-its, they are not obvious. In fact, I
encourage my people to have a number of quotes on post-its on their
terminals. Only they know which one is the phrase that pays.

- Hank Heath

In a message dated 10/23/2002 2:12:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Steve.McKay@SouthTrust.com writes:


> Does anyone have a CL/RPG/COBOL solution to generate "random" passwords?
> Auditing has a problem with me "assigning" an initial password (even if it
> is set to "*EXPIRED") and wants to programatically generate a password for
> each new user.