Linux Articles, Shell Scripts February 25, 2008 0

Random password generator – Losowe generowanie haseł

Random Password generator – let’s generate the password from within the urandom mess….

For the beginning let’s issue the following command (cancel it by Ctrl+c !!):

$cat /dev/urandom

It shows us, where the script takes its random strings from, further used for the password generation

  • As a result of below command will be 5 lines of printed marks:
< /dev/urandom tr -cd '[:graph:]' | fold -w 8 | head -n 5
  • in result of the following command we’ll get 5 lines of letters:
< /dev/urandom tr -cd '[:alpha:]' | fold -w 8 | head -n 5
  • below example returns letters + digits which are alphanumeric marks – x lines:
< /dev/urandom tr -cd '[:alnum:]' | fold -w 8 | head -n x # x - number of returned lines for ex.: 100

Quick “tr” How To:

# alnum
# alpha
# blank
# cntrl
# digit
# graph
# lower
# print
# punct
# space
# upper
# xdigit
– Letters numbers
– Letters
– levels white mark?
– control marks
– digits
– printed marks, excluding spaces
– lower case
– printed marks including spaces
– punctuation mark
– vertical or horizontal white mark (space)
– upper case
– HEX digits

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