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•Re: Re: •Re: A reasonable temporary password generator?

by merlyn (Sage)
on May 10, 2003 at 11:43 UTC ( [id://257107]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: •Re: A reasonable temporary password generator?
in thread A reasonable temporary password generator?

In that case, since a human would have to enter it, I'd stick with 6-to-10 alphanumerics only, but run it past cracklib to make sure it's not trivially brute-forceable, and also have some mechanism to ensure that it gets changed on first use.

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by Your Mother (Archbishop) on May 11, 2003 at 07:59 UTC
    Yeah, good point, I wasn't thinking of user-friendly and I should be. More friction means fewer users.

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