Lost User Account Passwords

[Anthony E. Greene]

On 20:49 Feb 2, 2005 "Thomas Cameron" <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:
[snip]
>They really can't get their passwords back (at least not easily).
>The best way to do it would be to have a script which generates a new
>password and mails it to them.  To generate quasi-random passwords I
>use a command like:
>ps ax | md5sum | cut -c 1-8

man mkpasswd


--Tony