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December 30, 2011 12:15
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Password Generator using linux RNG device
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# Allow lowercase and uppercase digits and numbers and the underscore | |
< /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Z-a-z-0-9 | head -c5; | |
echo ''; | |
# Allow more symbols: | |
< /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Z-a-z-0-9#.*$%^* | head -c10; | |
echo ''; | |
# And even more... | |
< /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Z-a-z-0-9#.*$%^*,+=-?/ | head -c10; | |
echo ''; | |
# Generate 5 random passwords of length 12 | |
cat /dev/urandom| tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9-_!@#$%^&*()_+{}|:<>?=' |fold -w 12| head -n 5| grep -i '[!@#$%^&*()_+{}|:<>?=]' | |
# Using openssl: | |
openssl rand 9 -hex # Hexadecimal output | |
openssl rand 9 -base64 # Base64-encoded output | |
# Take the md5sum of the current timestamp | |
date | md5sum | |
# and then take the Base64 of the output if you like: | |
date | md5sum | base64 | |
# Note: Replace /dev/urandom by /dev/random to generate an even "randomer" password | |
# however it performs rather bad and you'll have to wait a looooot! So if you | |
# want a faster but yet more random solution use: | |
dd if=/dev/random bs=1 count=20 | base64 |
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