Day 47: Generate password

28 Jul 2017

The pwgen command will help you to generate random passwords.

$ pwgen
se7fohR8 oosh4Ahv Iogein9L Diinah0v tohtei9O jie8aeXe ai1buPh8 aasoo1Oa
yei8bu5D ooC9aePo Obo0Aush thaeV8ph ieCoh4sh quoob4Ae uCoopho8 Echaoz2u
...

More complex:

$ pwgen -y
J}5cC#H& /1'\K.F, @2=&(p2R Q=&w_0Kk htJ$=z"6 lL>gM-7i v]^h*7Vs p[g^Cg93
:AVa{Fw9 R?M64Dzi E(8,t}s~ \7H<D8Dg .$5c'M4{ C7bV=QI_ g:,3ur<K 2c[6KD;B
...

1 password of 15 characters.

$ pwgen -y 15 1

Install on debian

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install pwgen