11-08-2016
Do you see /etc/passwd in your cygwin file system? In other words, "who" does the authentication? Windows or cygwin? See the
mkpasswd --help for more information.
mkpasswd indicates that, by default, Windows authenticates. You can force cygwin to authenticate. Never done it myself.
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string::mkpasswd
String::MkPasswd(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation String::MkPasswd(3pm)
NAME
String::MkPasswd - random password generator
SYNOPSIS
use String::MkPasswd qw(mkpasswd);
print mkpasswd();
# for the masochisticly paranoid...
print mkpasswd(
-length => 27,
-minnum => 5,
-minlower => 1, # minlower is increased if necessary
-minupper => 5,
-minspecial => 5,
-distribute => 1,
);
ABSTRACT
This Perl library defines a single function, "mkpasswd()", to generate random passwords. The function is meant to be a simple way for
developers and system administrators to easily generate a relatively secure password.
DESCRIPTION
The exportable "mkpasswd()" function returns a single scalar: a random password. By default, this password is nine characters long with a
random distribution of four lower-case characters, two upper-case characters, two digits, and one non-alphanumeric character. These
parameters can be tuned by the user, as described in the "ARGUMENTS" section.
ARGUMENTS
The "mkpasswd()" function takes an optional hash of arguments.
-length
The total length of the password. The default is 9.
-minnum
The minimum number of digits that will appear in the final password. The default is 2.
-minlower
The minimum number of lower-case characters that will appear in the final password. The default is 2.
-minupper
The minimum number of upper-case characters that will appear in the final password. The default is 2.
-minspecial
The minimum number of non-alphanumeric characters that will appear in the final password. The default is 1.
-distribute
If set to a true value, password characters will be distributed between the left- and right-hand sides of the keyboard. This makes it
more difficult for an onlooker to see the password as it is typed. The default is false.
-fatal
If set to a true value, "mkpasswd()" will Carp::croak() rather than return "undef" on error. The default is false.
If -minnum, -minlower, -minupper, and -minspecial do not add up to -length, -minlower will be increased to compensate. However, if
-minnum, -minlower, -minupper, and -minspecial add up to more than -length, then "mkpasswd()" will return "undef". See the section
entitled "EXCEPTION HANDLING" for how to change this behavior.
EXCEPTION HANDLING
By default, "mkpasswd()" will return "undef" if it cannot generate a password. Some people are inclined to exception handling, so
String::MkPasswd does its best to accommodate them. If the variable $String::MkPasswd::FATAL is set to a true value, "mkpasswd()" will
Carp::croak() with an error instead of returning "undef".
EXPORT
None by default. The "mkpasswd()" method is exportable.
SEE ALSO
<http://expect.nist.gov/#examples>, mkpasswd(1)
AKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Don Libes of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, who wrote the Expect example, mkpasswd(1).
AUTHOR
Chris Grau <cgrau@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2003-2010 by Chris Grau
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.1 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
perl v5.10.1 2010-10-18 String::MkPasswd(3pm)