How to write an application that generates a password from a five character string

[trouty]

My company wants me to write an application that generates a password from a five character string that the user enters. This is for security reasons for employees that have to enter the building on the weekends. I remember bits and pieces from school days but can't remember the actual coding, I think you have to reverse the order of the string and subtract 15 from the ASCII code?

[Banfa]

Do you mean to store for later recognition when the user enters the string again or are you going to supply the password back to the user for them to use?

[trouty]

indeed that is what I am trying to do, to issue a new passwordback to the employee

[trouty]

I think this is it, but can someone confirm that I am not missing anything

#include <iostream>
 #include <string> 
 
using namespace std; 
 
int main()
{
//define variables
    string plaintext;//store user input
    char password;//store password character    
 
//prompt for string
cout<< "\nEnter a five character name";
cin>> plaintext;
   if(plaintext.size()!=5)
   {    
     //display error message if name is not entered
     cout<<"error:you must enter name!";
   }
   else
   {
       cout<<"pw is";
       password=plaintext.at(4)-15;
       cout<<password;
       password=plaintext.at(3)-15;
       cout<<password;
       password=plaintext.at(2)-15;
       cout<<password;
       password=plaintext.at(1)-15;
       cout<<password;
       password=plaintext.at(0)-15;
       cout<<password;
   }
 
 
 
   return 0; // indicate that program ended successfully
 
} // end function main

[trouty]

Thank you so very much , maybe I'll get a raise if this works. Once again thanks.