Full Control Over a Randomly Generated Password
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Very good!
One problem though. Your code to limit the password length does not work if I pass negative numbers. When the specs are negative then they can't be more negative ten the number of items in the list. You can't call for more than 26 non-duplicated upper case letters as there are only 26 of them.
ATBCharles Kincaid
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Hi,
I always think that when ever i find some time spare than i will write this one.But u did and did in a nice way
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Nice solution.
I've been using spc_random_password of Written by Narayana Vyas Kondreddi http://vyaskn.tripod.com (Stored procedure to generate a simple or complex random password 
from almost when it was published (2001).Johan
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Well, its a nice solution and working prefect.
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A thought for generating passwords non-randomly: use your birthday in the Jewish (or Muslim or Persian or whatever) calendar. Therefore, if you forget it for whatever reason, you can regenerate it from a web site.
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This is a great idea, I am going to use it in my application. I have re-written it as a function though (for consistency with standards of my system) by creating a view for the NEWID() function:
CREATE VIEW v_NewID AS SELECT NEWID() AS 'New_ID'
and modifying the code to use the view rather than NEWID()
eg:
-- Get the Number Items
SET @i = ABS(@NumberItems)
WHILE @i > 0 AND LEN(@Numbers) > 0
SELECT @v-2 = ABS(CAST(CAST(New_ID AS BINARY(16)) AS BIGINT)) % LEN(@Numbers) + 1
, @C = SUBSTRING(@Numbers, @v-2, 1)
, @Numbers = CASE
WHEN @NumberItems < 0
THEN STUFF(@Numbers, @v-2, 1, '')
ELSE @Numbers
END
, @Temp = @Temp + @C
, @i = @i - 1
FROM v_NewID
David
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This link below has my own procedure for generating a somewhat mnemonic password, as well as several others for generating random or semi-random passwords:
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=78859
It is an interesting problem, because of the conflicting requirements of security where long, random passwords are better, and the ability of a human to read, remember, and type the password. A password like B4zI1=5UhW4K6KM'3 is probably almost impossible to crack, but how many people can remember it and type it correctly?
My mnemonic password procedure is an attempt at a compromise solution to generate passwords that are both secure and something that a human can remember and use. It could be done better, but it was the best solution I could think of at the time to meet my requirements.
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It doesn't matter.
When you want non-duplicated characters from a group, the while loop exits when there are no more characters to choose from.
Even if you set 50 non-duplicated characters, the while loop exits after 26.
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