Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Where is passwdgen?

[Stefan E. <ma...@en...>]

If it is ok, that you generate passwords, which are not easy to
remember, you could do something like

    < /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Za-z0-9 | head -c15

which generates a password of 15 chars length.

Additional info:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/462/how-to-create-strong-passwords-in-linux
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-generating-passwords-command/

Regards,
Stefan

On 02/18/2011 05:39 PM, Andrzej Odyniec wrote:
> Heiko Zuerker wrote:
>> it was removed with 1.4RC5, since it isn't maintained anymore.
> 
> So we need generate random passwords with separate scripts.
> 
> Maybe this is best solution. Without knowledge about this private script atack 
> is harder.
> 
> Regards
>