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= TIPS FOR APG =
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= This file contains some tips for APG. =
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= 1. If You wish to submit a tip please send an email to =
= <[email protected]> and if i find it useful i'll put =
= Your tip in the APG_TIPS file of the next release. =
= I will also put Your tip on the APG website as soon =
= as it posible. =
= 2. If you wish to remove or update Your tip please send =
= en email to <[email protected]>. I will remove/update =
= Your tip in the APG_TIPS file of the next release. =
= I'll remove/update Your tip on the APG website as =
= soon as it posible. =
= =
= Adel I Mirzazhanov =
= [email protected] =
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# 1. Elimination of certain characters from the output
# by Barton Hodges <[email protected]>
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I don't like to use "o"'s or "l"'s in my passwords
because they looke like zeros and ones instead of O's
and L's.
I hacked together a little shell script to accomplish
the elimination of certain characters from the output.
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#!/bin/sh
genpw () {
PW=$(/usr/local/bin/apg -L -m 10 -x 10 -n 1 | egrep -v [owl])
if [ "$PW" != "" ]; then
echo $PW
return 0;
else
return 1;
fi
}
until genpw; do : ; done
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Note:
Since apg-2.1.0b0 you can use [-e char_string] option
to do the same thing.
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# 2. APG and xinetd
# by Tomaz Zupan <[email protected]>
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I use xinetd instead of inetd as per your documentation,
so I hope you (or anyone using apgd) might find usefull
this xinetd.conf entry. Arguments are tailored according
to my needs, but that shouldn't be a problem for anyone
that read man pages ...
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# default: on
# description: APGD is a deamon that returns randomly generated password
service pwdgen
{
port = 129
socket_type = stream
wait = no
only_from = localhost
user = pismonosa
server = /usr/local/sbin/apgd
server_args = -M ln -n 1 -m 6 -x 8 -a 1
instances = 1
log_on_failure += USERID
disable = no
}
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# 3. APG and PHP script
# from http://www.forth.com/rick/
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After building and installing APG, you must make it
easily available. The simplest is as a web-page
reference. The simplest way to do this is by a php
script located in the root of the web server's data
tree:
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<html>
<body>
<pre>
<?
$foo = `/usr/local/bin/apg -n 20`;
echo $foo
?>
</pre>
</body>
</html>
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# 4. APG v2.1.0b0 and [R,r] letters in mode string
# by Adel I. Mirzazhanov <[email protected]>
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Since version 2.1.0b0 You can not use symbols R,r to ask
APG not to generate symbols (' ` | \ ? $ ") when You
plan to use special symbol set for password generation.
But You stil can get the same resault with new option
[-e char_string] (see apg(1)). Just run APG like this:
apg -a1 -M s -e \'\`\|\?\$\"\\
This method will work for random password generation
only.