Re: automatic password generation

[James Troup <james@nocrew.org>]

john@dhh.gt.org writes:

> Daniel Martin writes:
> > I'm just curious - how are you going to do this?  The best way I came up
> > with was: PASS=`head --bytes=16 /dev/urandom | md5sum`
> 
> Clever, but it only produces hex.  I want all letters and digits.
> This what I'm using:
> 
>   until [ `expr "$PASSWORD" : ".*"` -ge 8 ]
>   do
>     PASSWORD=`head -c 100 /dev/urandom | tr -dc '[:alnum:]' | head -c 8`
>   done

Y'all do know about the pwgen and makepasswd packages, right?

-- 
James