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   Bit Twister to Bud   
   Re: name of sys conf file containg passw   
   10 Jun 12 03:03:36   
   
   From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:39:16 +0000 (UTC), Bud wrote:   
   > Try this:   
   > http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html   
      
   I was not really after a new product. I was after knowledge about how   
   to manage current install password generation after seeing a few user   
   passwords still using md5sum.   
      
   Other distributions have changed to sha512   
      
   I was not worried about a brute force attack because of the current   
   login fail attempt lockout counter setting.   
      
   If I need a stronger password I can use something like   
       head -c 5 /dev/urandom | md5sum | cut -c-32   
   or  openssl rand 32 | md5sum | cut -c-32   
   where md5sum can be any one of other /usr/bin/sha* programs.  :-8   
      
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