On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:20:30AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > Excuse me my ignorance. 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. I know I can randomly hit the > keyboard but if anything like that exists, many thanks for your advice. :)
Using FreeBSD's random device: tcsh syntax: ( dd if=/dev/random bs=6 count=1 | openssl base64 > /dev/tty ) > & /dev/null sh syntax: dd if=/dev/random bs=6 count=1 2>/dev/null| openssl base64 Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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