Re: generating "assigned" usernames and passwords

Handy tool on all unix variants called 'words'. It is in various places (do a whereis or a find), but in many modern releases of BSD, Solaris and Linux, it tends to be in /usr/dict/words or something along those lines. Generally, words is a tad shrunk down to only be the common words. Might also be words.huge or words.big in that folder which each takes different amounts. Generally you don't want too many words, so just choose 'word'. Find the number of lines in the file, seek down to that line and read the word... Maybe combine two words or something. That's the best way to do it because someones password would be 'catphone' and you can add a number or something onto it. Alternately, just generate random text (choose from 26 characters + 10 numbers) of however many (8) characters in length you want. But those are annoying as you receive a password which makes little sense. Hope this pushes you in the right direction; -- Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Emery" <remery@excel.com> To: "'Larry Linthicum'" <larry@kimshew.com>; <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 5:39 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] generating "assigned" usernames and passwords > Let the users generate their own username and password. Then check the > database to ensure that particular username is not used yet. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Linthicum [mailto:larry@kimshew.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 2:40 PM > To: php-db@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-DB] generating "assigned" usernames and passwords > > > I have a need to limit access to part of a site and be able to generate > unique usernames and passwords to send out to those I want to have access. > They will be sent using PHP mail functions, looping through the addresses in > a database, each loop must generate a different and unique, username store > it in the database and add it to the mail Users will be able to UPDATE > the database to a more easily remember username and password, later, if they > choose. > > I tried to search the archives, but haven't discovered how to generate the > usernames and PWs to send out > > links, tips, suggestions ? > > thank you for your replies > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >