On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:04:43AM -0700, Myles Green wrote: > On Monday 11 December 2000 04:29, David Purton wrote: > > > this stems from the lack of imagination used by my dad in password > > picking... > > I use the following to generate passwords: > > cat /dev/urandom | od -s8 -An > > It might take a minute or so before it starts spitting out potential > passwords and you will have to stop with a ^C (ctrl+C) when you think > you have enough. this method seems to generate passwords with binary crap in them, perhaps you should try makepasswd instead? it uses /dev/random (or urandom not sure with atm) and generates ascii passwords ;-) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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