Comments on: Quickzi: Generate Random Passwords on the Linux Command Line

By: André Carvalho

André Carvalho — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 02:10:48 +0000

Try;date | md5sum

Cj_MaN — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:54:50 +0000

no_of_passwords=10
password_lenght=16

i=0
while [[ $i -le $no_of_passwords ]]; do
new_pass=$(< /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Z-a-z-0-9 | head -c$password_lenght)
[[ -n "$new_pass" ]] &done

Anson — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:08:26 +0000

you can get password generator in Debian:
#pwgen

Deviji — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:18:21 +0000

Hi,

I need to generate 10 random numbers using /dev/random.
Is this possible ?
Can you give me syntax for same.
Also how can i execute this in PHP.

Thanks in advance

mikron — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:37:29 +0000

Newline at the end:

$ echo `< /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Z-a-z-0-9 | head -c6`

xfdgdfg — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:33:23 +0000

Needs something to add a newline to the end.