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

[Andrzej O. <an...@ma...>]

Stefan Engel wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, Stefan

I used passwdgen with option -p (pronounced). Now I did it in this manner:

> #!/usr/bin/awk -f
> BEGIN{
>         c="bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxzBCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXZ"
>         v="aeiouyAEIOUY"
>         s="0123456789!@$%-=/+"
>         srand()
>         for (i=1;i<=1;i++)
>         {
>                 code=""
>                 for (j=1;j<=8;j++)
>                 {
>                         if(j==2||j==4||j==6)code = code""substr(v,int(rand()*length(v))+1,1)
>                         if(j==1||j==3||j==5)code = code""substr(c,int(rand()*length(c))+1,1)
>                         if(j==7||j==8||j==9)code = code""substr(s,int(rand()*length(s))+1,1)
>                 }
>                 print code
>         }
> }

so I have three syllables and two specials. This should be simple to remember.

Regards

Andrzej Odyniec