On 3 Mar 2006, at 21:07, KY1K wrote:

> I know who's sitting in front of the screen because all the users are 
> family members. We have 5 'users', not including the administrator. 
> Since all the users are family members, it's ok to have each others 
> passwords available to sweep with the cuecat....but each family 
> member has their own customized setup, which is why we have so many users.

Others (with more networking knowledge) have replied with alternatives - it is possible to create a 
device to do your long passwords. I modified a Motorola application to use an AVR AT90S2313 to 
take a serial input and convert to keyboard characters. It had a function where a certain 
combination of keys would take a string of charaters from memory and send them to the pc. You 
could add a 12 key keypad to a PIC/AVR and use the Motorola routines to send selected strings 
(passwords) depending which key was pressed.

<http://www.freescale.com/files/microcontrollers/doc/app_note/AN1723.pdf>

>From a post I made in 2000:-
"Unfortunately they wrote the pdf so you cannot select the text to copy any of it 
so I cannot reproduce any here.  Anyway it is a circuit (and program for MC68705J1A type) to fit 
between PC and keyboard. The circuit uses 2 chips (open collector ttl 7407 and 4066) to switch 
the lines from the PC to either the keyboard or the micro.  There is also a good text description of 
the keyboard waveforms etc. I sent them an email to complain that pages 27 to 45 were source code 
for the chip but I could not copy and paste into assembler due to their stupid protection. No 
response of course. "

luck,

George Smith
-- 
http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist