random password generator

Synkro

ok, so im on holidays, in a foreign country, in a webcafe using remote desktop/vnc to get into my home pc. Im worried that keylogging software etc etc that might be installed on these public pcs. Potentially as soon as i leave the pc someone else could hop on and hack into my home pc.
Ive seen these keyring rsa token thingies which display random numbers and are then used as part of the authentication for corporate sites and stuff.... Is there something like this available for my home pc? I want to set up a second admin account used just for remote desktop, and have the pwd change after each login/logout. maybe something simple like have it cycle through 10 pre defined pwds one after the other. Or maybe some other kind of random pwd generator, which would be complemented with software running on my pda?

any ideas?

thanks!

aido

de8o

could use something like

net user administartor2 "%date%%computername%"

note that this will set the password to the date+computername

note also that there will be a space between the day name e.g Thu and the date.

you could just run this when logging off

Capt'n Midnight

de8o wrote:

could use something like

net user administartor2 "%date%%computername%"

note that this will set the password to the date+computername

note also that there will be a space between the day name e.g Thu and the date.

you could just run this when logging off

Genius !

[php]echo.| time | Find "is">t
echo.| date | Find "is">d

for /F "tokens=1-9* delims=/:" %%i in (t) do echo %%i %%j %%k %%l
for /F "tokens=1-9* delims=/:" %%i in (t) do Set Hour=%%j

:' could also use find on a password list file to pick a new password each hour.'
find "%Hour%" c:\password.lst [/php]

MrPinK

The only problem with having the date in the passowrd is if someone does log your password on a particular day, they don't exactly have to be a genious to work out the system for generating tomorrow's password. Sharing random passwords is pretty easy to do if you have any programming knowledge. You just need a random number generator on both devices, and you give them the same initial seed values. They will then generate the same sequence of random numbers.

Synkro

thanks,

i think what i might do is have some icons/shortcuts on my desktop pointing to 'net user' commands, then have each icon represent a new password. That way i should be able to simple click on the icon before loggin off and it would change the pwd. Do you think this would work?