Re: Generating a file of 8 character passwords

LOL

I think the slashes are some kind of special character for quotes in newsgroups - not sure - Chuck will have to translate his special characters for us sometime - I tend to ignore them for now. Some are for bold and underline and the like, I think. Chuck?

At any rate, I think he is putting it in quotes ("free") to say it's usually included now with any i box. There is always the free mySQL that can be run on any Windows box, and that'd probably get you the same results. There's also an express version of SQL Server, I think.

OK - I googled for "newsgroup asterisk slash" and got one hit that includes this comment -

I believe the Usenet de facto standard for illustrating font styles of bold, underlining, and italics in plain-text newsgroup posts is to enclose the word or string within asterisks, underscores, or slashes

So maybe that's what's going on - he's making it italicized.

Later
Vern

On 6/29/2010 1:42 PM, Kirk Goins wrote:

Chuck,

I'm getting ready learm SQL and would be interested in /free/ version that
you mentioned below. Can you point me to a url or other reference? Thanks

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:03 AM, CRPence<CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 17-Jun-2010 06:00, Don Cavaiani wrote:

mixture of alpha and numeric (4 of each would be nice) - 8 long,
no Caps and no special characters

Dennis Lovelady on Thursday, June 17, 2010 7:26 AM wrote:

Need to know your password rules. All alpha? All numeric?
Spaces allowed? ...

Anyone know of a free program which will randomly generate a
file of passwords (approx. 500 of them)?

SQL is /free/ and has the scalar function RAND() which can assist
to choose characters from a string of valid characters. Something
like the following SELECT, for example:

<code>

with
validchar1 (inpstring) as
( select
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz012345678901234567890123456789'
/* repeated digits improves distribution per /nice/ */
/* drop vowels& a set of digits; avoid /bad/ words? */
from sysibm/sysdummy1 )
,validchar2 (inpstring, inplength) as
( select inpstring, decimal(length(inpstring), 3, 0)
from validchar1 )
,validchar3 (inpstring, inplength, ii) as
( select inpstring, inplength
, decimal( inplength - 0.01, 5, 2)
/* omit value of /one/ inclusive by rand(), using ii */
from validchar2 )
select /* concatenate 8 random bytes of input as output */
substr( inpstring, int(rand()*ii+1.0), 1 )
/* substr( inpstring, int(rand()*(ii-30)+1.0), 1 ) */
/* or subtraction prevents a digit as first character */
concat substr( inpstring, int(rand()*ii+1.0), 1 )
concat substr( inpstring, int(rand()*ii+1.0), 1 )
concat substr( inpstring, int(rand()*ii+1.0), 1 )
concat substr( inpstring, int(rand()*ii+1.0), 1 )
concat substr( inpstring, int(rand()*ii+1.0), 1 )
concat substr( inpstring, int(rand()*ii+1.0), 1 )
concat substr( inpstring, int(rand()*ii+1.0), 1 )
from validchar3
cross join a500plusRowFile
/* 500 rows generated by recursive CTE good since v5r4 */
fetch first 500 rows only

</code>

Regards, Chuck
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