Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:48:57 -0400 From: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net> To: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: random generated password Message-ID: <CANT0rcs%2BY8rto80hNNM8gAsg5uzT8jtc1%2B1ZOHGsNu%2Bf5PtxEg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHu1Y723GrYkwLBYnoh%2B5jtqg-5W3QprzpNAoaBXiKo%2BRZbzxg@mail.gmail.com> References: <4E5D28E0.5050700@gmail.com> <CAHu1Y72RGC5K2FPYk2Fq28zNkypAfg8YJrL=AQ6ht2S6wzf_nA@mail.gmail.com> <CAHu1Y71DmKEatXcx5yMLDEUwE2SpBNEgr=vZ-9DysPWEK4QDCQ@mail.gmail.com> <86mxeqoi8t.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <CAHu1Y723GrYkwLBYnoh%2B5jtqg-5W3QprzpNAoaBXiKo%2BRZbzxg@mail.gmail.com>
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If the purpose is to make login unusable, starring the password is the only 100% safe way... On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> wrot= e: > That occurred to me, but it's a smaller alphabet. =A0Probably doesn't > matter if the purpose is to make login unusable. > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Randal L. Schwartz > <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote: >>>>>>> "Michael" =3D=3D Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> writes: >> >> Michael> dd if=3D/dev/random count=3D1 | tr -c "[:alnum:]" >> Michael> '0-9A-Za-z0-9A-Za-z0-9A-Za-a-z0-9A-Za-z' >> >> Michael> will give you the right kind of characters to use, for example. >> >> I prefer "openssl rand -base64 6" to get an 8-char password from a >> fairly large set of sensible characters. =A0Each multiple of 3 results i= n 4 >> characters in the output. >> >> -- >> Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0= 095 >> <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>; >> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. >> See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >
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