Re: flaw in RH ``mkpasswd'' command

From: Thomas Roessler (roessler@DOES-NOT-EXIST.ORG)
Date: Wed Apr 11 2001 - 17:02:45 PDT

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    On 2001-04-11 16:32:38 +0100, Shez wrote:
    
    > 	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.
    



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