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Re: password generator



Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:
> suffocator@gmx.de writes:
> > does anyone know how to automatically generate a password for 
> > every user in a database?
> # This is Larry Wall's password program, somewhat rewritten.  I couldn't
> # find it on the net, and our version is rather Norwegian, but there
> # is a 'goodenough' routine you can probably use.
> # in http://ftp.se.kde.org/pub/security/tools/password/yppapasswd/.
> ...

IMO that's bloated.

Much more easy:

dd if=/dev/urandom ibs=6 count=1 2>/dev/null | encode-base64

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