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Install mkpasswd command on any operating system. Whois intelligent WHOIS client. This package provides a commandline client for the WHOIS (RFC 3912) protocol, which queries online servers for information such as contact details for domains and IP address assignments. Mkpasswd - Overfeatured front end to crypt(3) SYNOPSIS mkpasswd PASSWORD SALT DESCRIPTION mkpasswd encrypts the given password with the crypt(3) libc function using the given salt. OPTIONS-S,-salt=STRING Use the STRING as salt. It must not contain prefixes such as $1$.R,-rounds=NUMBER Use NUMBER rounds. This argument is ignored if the. The exportable mkpasswd function returns a single scalar: a random password. By default, this password is nine characters long with a random distribution of four lower-case characters, two upper-case characters, two digits, and one non-alphanumeric character. These parameters can be tuned by the user, as described in the 'ARGUMENTS' section. The mkpasswd generates indexes over certain security files. These indexes are used by the getpwnam, getpwuid, getuserattr, and putuserattr library subroutines. This approach significantly enhances performance for large user base systems.

mkpasswd - generate new password, optionally apply it to a user

Synopsis

mkpasswd [ args ] [ user

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Introduction

mkpasswd generates passwords and can apply them automatically to users. mkpasswd isbased on the code from Chapter 23 of the O'Reilly book 'Exploring Expect'.

Usage

With no arguments, mkpasswd returns a new password.

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With a user name, mkpasswd assigns a new password to the user.

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The passwords are randomly generated according to the flags below.

Flags

The -l flag defines the length of the password. The default is 9. The following examplecreates a 20 character password.

mkpasswd -l 20

The -d flag defines the minimum number of digits that must be in the password. The default is 2. The following example creates a password with atleast 3 digits.

mkpasswd -d 3

The -c flag defines the minimum number of lowercase alphabetic characters that must be in the password. The default is 2.

The -C flag defines the minimum number of uppercase alphabetic characters that must be in the password. The default is 2.

The -s flag defines the minimum number of special characters that must be in the password. The default is 1.

The -p flag names a program to set the password. By default, /etc/yppasswd is used if present, otherwise /bin/passwd is used.

The -2 flag causes characters to be chosen so that they alternate between right and left hands (qwerty-style), making it harder for anyone watchingpasswords being entered. This can also make it easier for a password-guessing program.

How to install cccam on enigma2 plugin. The -v flag causes the password-setting interaction to be visible. By default, it is suppressed.

Example

The following example creates a 15-character password that contains at least 3 digits and 5uppercase characters.

mkpasswd -l 15 -d 3 -C 5

See Also

'Exploring Expect: A Tcl-Based Toolkit for Automating Interactive Programs' by Don Libes, O'Reillyand Associates, January 1995.

Author

Don Libes, National Institute of Standards and Technology

mkpasswd is in the public domain. NIST and I would appreciate credit if this program or parts of it are used.

DESCRIPTION

String::MkPasswd - random password generator

This Perl library defines a single function, mkpasswd(), to generate random passwords. The function is meant to be a simple way for developers and system administrators to easily generate a relatively secure password.

The exportable mkpasswd() function returns a single scalar: a random password. By default, this password is nine characters long with a random distribution of four lower-case characters, two upper-case characters, two digits, and one non-alphanumeric character. These parameters can be tuned by the user, as described in the 'ARGUMENTS' section.

ARGUMENTS

The mkpasswd() function takes an optional hash of arguments.

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-length

The total length of the password. The default is 9.

-minnum

The minimum number of digits that will appear in the final password. The default is 2.

-minlower

The minimum number of lower-case characters that will appear in the final password. The default is 2.

-minupper

The minimum number of upper-case characters that will appear in the final password. The default is 2.

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-minspecial

The minimum number of non-alphanumeric characters that will appear in the final password. The default is 1.

-distribute

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If set to a true value, password characters will be distributed between the left- and right-hand sides of the keyboard. This makes it more difficult for an onlooker to see the password as it is typed. The default is false.

-noambiguous

If set to a true value, password characters will not include any that might be mistaken for others. This is particularly helpful if you're distributing a printed list of passwords to a group of people. The default is false.

-fatal

If set to a true value, mkpasswd() will Carp::croak() rather than return undef on error. The default is false.

If -minnum, -minlower, -minupper, and -minspecial do not add up to -length, -minlower will be increased to compensate. However, if -minnum, -minlower, -minupper, and -minspecial add up to more than -length, then mkpasswd() will return undef. See the section entitled 'EXCEPTION HANDLING' for how to change this behavior.

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EXCEPTION HANDLING

By default, mkpasswd() will return undef if it cannot generate a password. Some people are inclined to exception handling, so String::MkPasswd does its best to accommodate them. If the variable $String::MkPasswd::FATAL is set to a true value, mkpasswd() will Carp::croak() with an error instead of returning undef.

EXPORT

None by default. The mkpasswd() method is exportable.

http://expect.nist.gov/#examples, mkpasswd(1)

Don Libes of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, who wrote the Expect example, mkpasswd(1).

Chris Grau <cgrau@cpan.org>

Copyright (C) 2003-2012 by Chris Grau

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.1 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.