[Mailman-Developers] Serious problem with password generation

[Chuq Von Rospach]

At 2:02 PM -0600 7/14/00, Sean Reifschneider wrote:

>Perhaps we need something to check the passwords generated against
>a list of known offensive passwords?

and avoid the numbers 13 and 666.

Actually, one of the things I put on my list (low priority) is a 
password generating routine that creates memorable, non-random, 
non-guessable passwords using a set of short words and punctuation, 
so the password would become something like the*gina.

>After I stopped laughing, the user was told not to take it so
>personally.  :-)

Yeah, but it's a great reminder about sweating the details...
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