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password generator, ideally for OS 9

Cory5412

Daring Pioneer of the Future
Staff member
Hey, random query:

Does anybody know of a random sequence generator that's mildly configurable and ideally drop-dead simple?

I'd like it to run on OS 9, but if it were carbon and also ran on X, I wouldn't mind that much. I'd rather not use a spreadsheet to do this, just for overhead reasons. (In particular, I'm looking for a tool to run on vtools to generate random 8-character passwords.)

Even more ideally, if you could copy/paste in/out of it that would be great.

I looked in OS9's keychain app and it doesn't have a password suggester, the way OS X's does.

I can admin vtools from an OS X machine, but I'm not always at a suitable one.

Thank you in advance!

 

dcr

Well-known member
Are you able to use MacPerl with vTools?  Or just Perl?  Years ago, I wrote Perl script that generated random 9-character passwords.

 
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