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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: OT: Password generator (Re: [PATCH] Some minor .cvsignore patches)
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-06-04 18:06:13
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On Monday 04 June 2001 19:39, Malte Starostik wrote:
> On Montag, 4. Juni 2001 12:30, David Faure wrote:
> > On Monday 04 June 2001 04:27, Rob Napier wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 01:20:20AM +0200, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> > > > On Sonntag, 3. Juni 2001 23:18 Rob Napier wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Do you have a CVS account? Feel free to commit those, no need to send a
> > > > mail about that.
> > >
> > > Nope, no CVS account. That's why I always mail my patches. I'm not
> > > really a developer, just the "make it go on Solaris guy" :)
> >
> > That's enough to get an account if you want one :)
> >
> > (Mail me an encrypted password, out of /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow for a
> > dummy user)
> The attached script makes creation of encrypted passwords quite easy. It uses 
> /dev/random so the "salt" should be quite safe...just use a Strong Password 
> (tm). Requires Term::ReadPassword, which is easily installed via perl -MCPAN 
> -e 'install Term::ReadPassword'

Yes but we've had many cases of encrypted passwords generated by perl that
wouldn't work. No idea why.

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