Tuesday, January 9, 2018
random password commands in Linux
random password commands in Linux
This is an alternative to generate random password, in general you may use this whether:
1. you use the same password for all your accounts (thats not a good idea)
2. you are a programmer and in you need a random password generator for sign-up process
in those cases, you may use this commands:
1. makepasswd, it uses /dev/urandom to generate them, here the first steps to use it:
-sudo apt-get install makepasswd
-makepasswd --chars 16 -> generate password with a length of 16 characters, you may change it.
-makepasswrd --chars 16 --count 5 -> it will generate a list of five different passwords
2. pwgen: generate readable passwords ( use your imagination, many of them seems unreadable for me)
-sudo apt-get install pwgen
-pwgen 16 2 -> it will generate 2 passwords with 16 chars of length.
Thats all, whether youre interest to explore more parameters for these commands, please use man
Cheers
