At 04:32 PM 4/11/01 +0100, Shez wrote:
>Hey,
> The mkpasswd password generator that ships in the ``expect'' package of (at
>least RedHat 6.2) generates only a relatively small number (2^15 for the
>default password length) of passwords. Presumably this is a result of trying
>to apply too many rules of what is a ``good'' password to the generation
>process.
Same goes for RedHat 7.0
wc -l /tmp/passwords
188859
sort -u /tmp/passwords | wc -l
32166
Although I wonder if they're not outweighing the risk of dropping some of
those rules over the risk of having fewer possible passwords. (Not to say
that I agree with that, though.)
Lee.
