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Subject: Re: random generated password
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>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Sierchio <kudzu@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.

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