Re: Need to generate passwords

["Narayanan R Pillai" <strqst400@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think the requirement was to generate an initial password and then give
the password to the new user. I am sure that the profile is PWDEXP(*YES)
along with this. This allows the user to reset it to a "non-sticky-note"
password.

Have I gotten this right ? Oh yeah and dhart has it right, do not use Q
before the password, the code that I posted was used to generate file-names
like the QRPLOBJ filenames. It was NOT used to generate passwords.

Regards
Narayanan R Pillai
Senior Technical Architect
American Medical & Life Insurance

----- Original Message -----
From: <HankHeath@aol.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 3:59 PM
Subject: 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.
>
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