Comments on: Linux / UNIX: Generating random password with mkpasswd http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/generating-random-password/ Every answer asks a more beautiful question. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:06:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dave http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/generating-random-password/comment-page-1/#comment-43730 Dave Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:26:18 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/generating-random-password/#comment-43730 Another handy way of generating random passwords is this: <code>echo `</dev/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | head -c8`</code> Obviously, this can be tweaked to your liking by adding symbols to the list of allowed characters and changing the length of the generated password in the head options. You can also use /dev/random if you want proper randomness but that does make it a whole lot slower. Another handy way of generating random passwords is this:

echo `</dev/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | head -c8`

Obviously, this can be tweaked to your liking by adding symbols to the list of allowed characters and changing the length of the generated password in the head options. You can also use /dev/random if you want proper randomness but that does make it a whole lot slower.

]]> By: Gen2ly http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/generating-random-password/comment-page-1/#comment-43456 Gen2ly Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:36:10 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/generating-random-password/#comment-43456 To generate a random password for a user, you can do: usermod -p `mkpasswd --chars=20` username Also there char should be chars. Thanks for the tip. To generate a random password for a user, you can do:

usermod -p `mkpasswd –chars=20` username

Also there char should be chars. Thanks for the tip.

]]> By: Slavko http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/generating-random-password/comment-page-1/#comment-37004 Slavko Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:27:37 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/generating-random-password/#comment-37004 <code>apt-get install makepasswd</code> apt-get install makepasswd

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