APG DOCUMENTATION

Tips for APG

This page contains some tips for APG.

If You wish to submit a tip please send an email to <a-del@iname.com> and if i find it useful i'll put Your tip in the APG_TIPS file of the next release. I will also put Your tip on the APG website as soon as it posible.
If you wish to remove or update Your tip please send en email to <a-del@iname.com>. I will remove/update Your tip in the APG_TIPS file of the next release. I'll remove/update Your tip on the APG website as soon as it posible.

Adel I Mirzazhanov
a-del@iname.com

1. Elimination of certain characters from the output.
2. APG and xinetd.
3. APG and PHP script.

####################################################### # 1. Elimination of certain characters from the output. # by Barton Hodges <barton@gcmcomputers.com> #######################################################

I don't like to use "o"'s or "l"'s in my passwords because they looke like zeros and ones instead of O's and L's.

I hacked together a little shell script to accomplish the elimination of certain characters from the output.

--------> [cut here] #!/bin/sh genpw () { PW=$(/usr/local/bin/apg -L -m 10 -x 10 -n 1 | egrep -v [owl]) if [ "$PW" != "" ]; then echo $PW return 0; else return 1; fi } until genpw; do : ; done --------> [cut here]

####################################################### # 2. APG and xinetd # by Tomaz Zupan <tomaz.zupan@orpo.si> #######################################################

I use xinetd instead of inetd as per your documentation, so I hope you (or anyone using apgd) might find usefull this xinetd.conf entry. Arguments are tailored according to my needs, but that shouldn't be a problem for anyone that read man pages ...

--------> [cut here] # default: on # description: APGD is a deamon that returns randomly generated password service pwdgen { port = 129 socket_type = stream wait = no only_from = localhost user = pismonosa server = /usr/local/sbin/apgd server_args = -M ln -n 1 -m 6 -x 8 -a 1 instances = 1 log_on_failure += USERID disable = no } --------> [cut here]

###################################################### # 3. APG and PHP script # from http://www.forth.com/rick/ ######################################################

After building and installing APG, you must make it easily available. The simplest is as a web-page reference. The simplest way to do this is by a php script located in the root of the web server's data tree:

--------> [cut here] <html> <body> <pre> <? $foo = `/usr/local/bin/apg -n 20`; echo $foo ?> </pre> </body> </html> --------> [cut here]