Re: Need to generate passwords

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The operative word in his e-mail was "Auditing".  I presume thats where
auditors hang out.  Ever explain anything to an auditor?   Successfully?

Get an old newspaper and a dart.   throw the dart. thats the password.  Tell
him that's your Random Password Generator(RPG).   If he is still concerning,
get a Wall Street Journal and use one of those pages.  Now you have an
Official Wall Street Journal Random Password Generator.  If he's still upset
 buy a New York Times Sunday Edition.

(This code is written in Free-Form RPG)

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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------

From: midrange-l@midrange.com
Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 03:02:53 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Need to generate passwords

At 10/23/02 02:07 PM, you wrote:
>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.


Have you explained that random passwords are *far* more likely to be put
on a Post-It on the side of the screen??

-mark