Password Generator
Monty J. Harder
lists at kc.rr.com
Thu Jun 20 04:07:07 CDT 2002
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 09:58 am, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> Can anybody recommend a program to generate passwords for user accounts?
How about this:
mkpwd
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dd if=/dev/random bs=${1-12} count=1 2>/dev/null |
uuencode -m - | head -n2 | tail -n1
examples:
monster: ~> ./mkpwd
SnKWbv71bjEnmXlP
monster: ~> ./mkpwd
xsK6SnGKL/r13C/q
monster: ~> ./mkpwd 8
hfJecNmXp94=
monster: ~> ./mkpwd 5
tv8Ur3U=
If the number you choose as the parameter is not divisible by 3, the last
character generated will be less than random, but the entire string is pretty
darned random, and IMO makes for a more secure alternative than letting
"Mary" make her password be "mary" like some of my customers do.
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