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34 #include "kadmin_locl.h"
36 __RCSID("$Heimdal: random_password.c 21745 2007-07-31 16:11:25Z lha $"
39 /* This file defines some a function that generates a random password,
40 that can be used when creating a large amount of principals (such
41 as for a batch of students). Since this is a political matter, you
42 should think about how secure generated passwords has to be.
44 Both methods defined here will give you at least 55 bits of
48 /* If you want OTP-style passwords, define OTP_STYLE */
53 static void generate_password(char **pw
, int num_classes
, ...);
57 random_password(char *pw
, size_t len
)
63 krb5_generate_random_block(&newkey
, sizeof(newkey
));
64 otp_print_stddict (newkey
, pw
, len
);
69 generate_password(&pass
, 3,
70 "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", 7,
71 "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", 2,
72 "@$%&*()-+=:,/<>1234567890", 1);
73 strlcpy(pw
, pass
, len
);
74 memset(pass
, 0, strlen(pass
));
79 /* some helper functions */
82 /* return a random value in range 0-127 */
84 RND(unsigned char *key
, int keylen
, int *left
)
87 krb5_generate_random_block(key
, keylen
);
91 return ((unsigned char*)key
)[*left
];
94 /* This a helper function that generates a random password with a
95 number of characters from a set of character classes.
97 If there are n classes, and the size of each class is Pi, and the
98 number of characters from each class is Ni, the number of possible
99 passwords are (given that the character classes are disjoint):
109 Since it uses the RND function above, neither the size of each
110 class, nor the total length of the generated password should be
111 larger than 127 (without fixing RND).
115 generate_password(char **pw
, int num_classes
, ...)
124 unsigned char rbuf
[8]; /* random buffer */
129 classes
= malloc(num_classes
* sizeof(*classes
));
132 va_start(ap
, num_classes
);
134 for(i
= 0; i
< num_classes
; i
++){
135 classes
[i
].str
= va_arg(ap
, const char*);
136 classes
[i
].len
= strlen(classes
[i
].str
);
137 classes
[i
].freq
= va_arg(ap
, int);
138 len
+= classes
[i
].freq
;
141 *pw
= malloc(len
+ 1);
146 for(i
= 0; i
< len
; i
++) {
148 int x
= RND(rbuf
, sizeof(rbuf
), &rleft
) % (len
- i
);
150 for(j
= 0; j
< num_classes
; j
++) {
151 if(x
< t
+ classes
[j
].freq
) {
152 (*pw
)[i
] = classes
[j
].str
[RND(rbuf
, sizeof(rbuf
), &rleft
)
157 t
+= classes
[j
].freq
;
161 memset(rbuf
, 0, sizeof(rbuf
));