>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Sierchio <ku...@tenebras.com> writes:
Michael> dd if=/dev/random count=1 | 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. Each multiple of 3 results in 4 characters in the output. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <mer...@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-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
