Re: User Passwords: checking for unique chars

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Oh! You're so mean!! ;) A lot of people are making some great points. I feel I must strighten this out a little. While I may not be the best coder in the world I do have my reasons. I originally made the passwords automatically generated and emailed to the user. Nice complicated ones! I was immediately shot down for doing this because no one here liked the idea of having complicated passwords! I was told to allow the user to chose their own so I merely wanted to make sure no one could have stupid passwords like "aaa". So I just added a few limitations. Besides, my small website doesn't hold any sensitive information about anyone so it wouldn't be the end of the world if some cracked it!

Try something like http://sourceforge.net/projects/pwgen/ which generates passwords that are easy for humans to remember, yet not that "dumb".