ambiguous characters in generated password (PR#159)

[Bug Importer]

Jitterbug-Id: 159
Submitted-By: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:19:34 -0500 (EST)
Version: 1.0
OS: not sure

Note: I'm submitting this on behalf of our system administrator, so I'm
not
sure about the underlying versions of Python and OS. I'd ask, but he is a
bit
pre-occupied at the moment. :-(

While beta-testing Mailman, about two versions prior to the first official
release, I reported that generated passwords were including ambiguous
characters
that were difficult to differentiate with some fonts. I believe that the
resolution is documented in bug #41 under "requests".

However, either that fix has "slipped out", or it needs to be
enhanced further
to exclude at least the following characters:

l ("ell") vs. 1 ("one")
O ("oh") vs. 0 ("zero")

This isn't a comprehensive list -- there might be others that should be
excluded
that currently are not. I encounted the latter one in the above list
today.

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[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Mailman 2.0 final will probably have a more user friendly password
generating algorithm.