Re: mkpasswd

2019-05-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
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 "op

Re: mkpasswd

2019-05-15 Thread Chris Adams
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 _

Re: mkpasswd

2019-05-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
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

Re: mkpasswd

2019-05-15 Thread Ben Cotton
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 y

mkpasswd

2019-05-15 Thread Aleksandar Kostadinov
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