Seek help with a password/word generator

[Martin84a]

Hi

I have a few words where I need to insert the star symbol (*) into the word, without changing the word's meaning.

Eg. the word electrical

e*lectrical
el*ectrical
ele*c*trical
elec*trical
elect*rical
electri*cal
electric*al
electrica*l
electrical*

or

e**lectrical
e*l*ectrical
e*le*ctrical
e*lec*trical
e*lect*rical
e*lectr*ical
e*lectri*cal
e*lectric*al
e*lectrica*l
e*lectrical*

There is no limit to the amount of stars that can be added to the word, but for the sake of it, let's say that I don't need more than 400 generated words. I have other words that I need to perform that same task and I have spend that last two hours looking at the help file to a tool called PWGen but I can't figure out how to create such a word list. Can someone recommend me a tool that can create such a word list? Preferably with a GUI, since I'm not that technical minded :/

 

[sourceninja]

A password generator is not really the tool for this. I would probably write a short bash script to accomplish this. Just identify the number of characters in the word, then generate a random number to determine how many places in the word we are going to add the character, then finally for each place, generate a random spot in the word, and generate a random count for the number of that character to appear.

If these are being used as passwords though, why not just generate actual random passwords?

 

[Plar]

You can use numbers instead of stars.