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#1 2010-12-31 01:02:50
- Ben9250
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Generated Passwords
This might be a weird question and possibly a dead end, but I heard of, when talking to so people in the Bio department, where a utility can generate a random password for the user, or superuser at a defined interval, so it is very hard for people to hack or guess as a password good for one day isn't any good the following day as a new one is in use. I've tried searching for such a thing on the web, but mostly there just web based - falsely claiming truly random generators, not quite what I'm looking for. Does anybody else understand what I mean, and if there's anything available in Linux that does such a function or is that nonsense?
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Ben.
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#3 2010-12-31 01:45:29
- fukawi2
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Re: Generated Passwords
The Yubikey was shown off at LCA at the start of the year... It's true OTK, not daily though...
http://www.yubico.com/yubikey
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