[rt-users] Curse Word in Random Password Generation

John Schubert jschubert at linearcorp.com
Tue Dec 9 08:48:27 EST 2003


On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 21:16, Autrijus Tang wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:13:01PM -0500, Hammad wrote:
> > I know its not the same but quite close to something we can't allow. Is there
> > any way to prevent that from happening?
> 
> May I suggest Regexp::Common? :-)
> 
> You can use the $RE{profanity} test and force a regeneration if it
> matches.
> 
> Another thought is to generate number-only, but somewhat long,
> passwords.

I was thinking the same, although combinations of letters and numbers. 
If you make every two alternate, it'd be very difficult to create a word
of any meaning.

Such as:  fu34 at k7

John




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