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in reply to Re: need to auto generate user/password info
in thread need to auto generate user/password info

I just call passwdgen to generate my passwords. It may not be as portable but it does offer a ton of flexibility.
sub generatePassword { my $password = `passwdgen -pa --length=6`; $password =~ s/Your password is: (.*)/$1/; chomp $password; return $password; }