> I should have mentioned that -- I realize its mostly garbage. I wrote a C
> program that use isalpha() to determine its validity. So it reads three or
> four chars, and picks a punctuation mark to prevent alphabetic passwords only.
>
> I just didn't realize how random it actually is, and if its really meant for
> this purpose... And how about /dev/urandom?
urandom is the faster less secure random generator. Looking at a few dd's
from it, I would think it would work as well for this purpose. Instead of
using isalpha and friends, just make sure the char value is between 32 and
126. That'll give you a better range of usable but non-alpha characters.
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