On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 6:40 PM, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote:
> On 9/26/2014 4:32 PM, Nelson Green wrote: > >> >> Thanks Bosco, DrakoRod, and Adrian. Between the three of you it became >> obvious >> that I was doing something wrong. And yes, in the end you were right. >> Doubling >> the quote does indeed work. >> >> It turns out it this particular password also had a \ in it, and my >> console >> width wrapped right before it, putting it as the first character on the >> next >> line, where I just didn't notice it until a few minutes ago. I changed >> that to >> a ^ for the time being, and then doubled the quote whereupon it all >> worked. I >> will certainly look into how to escape the backslash too, but that's for >> next >> week at this point. >> > > I'd consider using `mkpasswd -l 15 -s 0` just to avoid any such > problems. 15 random alphanumerics is already plenty complex, 62^15th > possible combinations, without needing to mix in special characters. > > $ mkpasswd -l 15 -s 0 > eec1kj7ZsthlYmh > Thanks John. We use apg which has similar options. But alas, I must comply with organizational password policies. Regards, Nelson
