I be lazy - SoftFuse Password Generator

How often do you actually have to "think" real hard about a password? seriously, it's in the top 10 of most time consuming mini-tasks for IT admins and developers (the dev's has variable naming and method naming as the top) and since i have to set up quite a few service accounts for MOSS i was starting to get a brainfreeze after my third.

So, instead of doing the lazy (and dangerous) one on these passwords and keep the same once i'd come up with one that'd pass the password policies, i decided to look for a password generator.

I could easily write one, but that's just too much work for me atm..So, going the extra step i did a simple search and found a few possible tools.

First one was SoftFuse Password Generator Free 1.2 and it's simple to use and gives you three character options (Letters, Numbers and Symbols), a prefix and a suffix and a password length..Click "Generate" and voila, it works.

So, being totally lazy i stopped there and now i can spit out passwords in a matter of seconds.

You can find this tool, and more, at www.softfuse.com - neat!

Published Friday, January 11, 2008 6:38 AM by Brian Madsen
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# re: I be lazy - SoftFuse Password Generator

...or if you spend your life and the web and don't want to install any software, there is the bookmarklet that I built: myles.eftos.id.au/.../password-generating-bookmarklet

Just drag the link in the post to you toolbar/bookmark area and click it when you need a password - it'll drop an 8-character alpha-numeric password in to a dig at the top of the page (Doen't work on sites with a frameset).

Just another option :)

Thursday, January 10, 2008 6:17 PM by Myles Eftos

# re: I be lazy - SoftFuse Password Generator

Hey Myles,

Very handy little script..thanks for that.

The link doesn't seem to take you directly to the password generator and it's missing special characters which is quite common today.

secondly, instead of displaying the password at the top of the page, how about popping up a JS confirmation box and ask if the user wants to save it to clibboard?

Anyways, very handy...thanks for the link Myles!

Friday, January 11, 2008 2:05 AM by Brian Madsen

# re: I be lazy - SoftFuse Password Generator

I've always used KeePass Portable portableapps.com/.../keepass_portable

It runs off of my thumbstick, is itself password protected, contains a password database and will do generation for you. Now I've just remembered one complex 13 charcater password (For Keepass) and everything else is taken care of for me.

Friday, January 11, 2008 2:54 AM by Mike Minutillo