Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:05:03 +0530 From: "N. Raghavendra" <raghu@mri.ernet.in> To: z.szalbot@lc-words.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: generating random passwords Message-ID: <8663sgdx20.fsf@riemann.mri.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <484F7CBE.5060401@lc-words.com> (Zbigniew Szalbot's message of "Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:20:30 %2B0200") References: <484F7CBE.5060401@lc-words.com>
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At 2008-06-11T09:20:30+02:00, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random > passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying > existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to generate a > random string of characters. One way is to use the rand(1) command which comes with the base system as a part of OpenSSL: [riemann:/usr/home/raghu]% openssl rand -base64 6 1olqAkXG [riemann:/usr/home/raghu]% openssl rand -base64 9 gO/9nTp5/SYa [riemann:/usr/home/raghu]% openssl rand -base64 6 ib9SrIe2 Base64 encoding transforms every group of 3 octets to 4 encoded characters, so `openssl rand -base64 3N' produces a string with 4N encoded characters. In case it is relevant, the generated strings are made up of the 62 US-ASCII alphanumerical characters, `+', and `/'. HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <raghu@mri.ernet.in> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information.
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