How to write a password script?

[seabreeze]

How do you write a mini script involving AWK to set a password that consists 7 characters [A-Za-z] generated randomly? The database output is to have the format:

UserIDassword:SSN

For example, I did the following script:

awk 'BEGIN {FS=","} {
{$1=substr($1, 1, 1);
$2=substr($2, 1, 1);
$3=substr($3, 1, 1);
$10=substr($10, 6, 10); }
{ if ( $2=="" ){ n="X" } else { n=$2 } ; }
{ print $1n$3$10 ; }
}' NightFlightSite.db #the file

I'm trying to figure out about the password part. Hope you can help me out on this. Thanks!

 

[flogrr]

Here is one way that seems to work O.K.

Test it like this:

echo "this" | rand # I called file "rand"
# Make it executable first!


nawk 'BEGIN{ alpha = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" }

{

srand() # default seed using system time

for( i = 1 ; i<= 7 ; i++ ) {
num = 1 + int( rand() * 52 )
string = substr(alpha,num,1)
print string # delete this or comment out after testing
passwd = ( passwd string ) # concatenate chars
}

} END { print passwd }'


Hope this helps you!


flogrr
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[flogrr]

The editor dumped the subscript in my previous
post in line:

passwd = ( passwd string )

Sorry about that!


flogrr
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