Want an easy password generator? Try genpass :)
Greetings,
My friend Matthew Oliver and I have worked on a GPL password generator script that creates decent random passwords for Linux users (genpass - the random password generator). If you would like to check it out, you can download the tarball here, and extract where you like (prob /usr/local/bin). Or, if you're a Gentoo user we have an ebuild here. Simply extract to your portage overlay (default is /usr/local/portage, but I use /usr/portage/local). Code:
tar -zxvf genpass-0.3-ebuild.tar.gz -C /usr/local/portage Code:
echo "sys-apps/genpass ~x86 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords" Then emerge it :) Code:
emerge -av genpass Code:
genpass --help Code:
chris@josiah ~ $ genpass --help There are probably other easier ways to do this, but it was fun and we hope else someone finds it useful :cool: Let us know your thoughts. Cheers, Chris & Matt |
Or if you have perl installed, which I think every Linux distro comes with you can use the String::Random module to do this with about 3 lines of code....
http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/hel...ng/Random.html ;) |
that's pretty cool :)
still it was fun to make ;) I guess you could think of genpass as the perl random_string module for bash :D imagine how much code there is behind the random_string module. And for people who don't know how to use the "complex" perl commands, genpass makes it easy. Not to mention, with genpass you can do it in one line! :P hehe And not that anyone seems interested, but version 0.2 is out cheers |
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use String::Random; |
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