Re: mkpasswd
On 15May2019 18:46, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Cameron Simpson said: But, yeah, if that doesn't sort it, use another tool. Ben suggested pwgen, and I've got a script of my own called "mkpw" which generates a 16 character random hex string. Just FYI: openssl CLI can do that with "openssl rand -hex 8". Nice! - Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: mkpasswd
Once upon a time, Cameron Simpson said: > But, yeah, if that doesn't sort it, use another tool. Ben suggested > pwgen, and I've got a script of my own called "mkpw" which generates > a 16 character random hex string. Just FYI: openssl CLI can do that with "openssl rand -hex 8". -- Chris Adams ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: mkpasswd
On 15May2019 16:13, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: in Fedora 28 I used the command `mkpasswd` [1] to generate passwords according to different criteria. Now in Fedora 30 this command asks for a password to encrypt for /etc/passwd usage. Any ideas how do I get back the old `mkpasswd`? [1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/mkpasswd Maybe mkpasswd now comes from something else. IIRC mkpasswd came from the expect package. But, yeah, if that doesn't sort it, use another tool. Ben suggested pwgen, and I've got a script of my own called "mkpw" which generates a 16 character random hex string. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: mkpasswd
On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 9:15 AM Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: > in Fedora 28 I used the command `mkpasswd` [1] to generate passwords > according to different criteria. Now in Fedora 30 this command asks for > a password to encrypt for /etc/passwd usage. > Would pwgen(1)[1] do what you need? [1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/pwgen -- Ben Cotton He / Him / His Fedora Program Manager Red Hat TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
mkpasswd
Hi, in Fedora 28 I used the command `mkpasswd` [1] to generate passwords according to different criteria. Now in Fedora 30 this command asks for a password to encrypt for /etc/passwd usage. Any ideas how do I get back the old `mkpasswd`? [1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/mkpasswd ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
