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<p>Jan's version is kind of nicer than just random chracters because
the result looks somewhat like pronounceable words if you like
English.</p>
<p>That makes it slightly more memorable than something truly
random.</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/02/2016 01:04 PM, Stewart C.
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<pre wrap="">On 2016-06-02 12:13 PM, Alvin Starr wrote:
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<pre wrap="">A lot of years ago Jan Carlson wrote a userfriendly password generator.
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Yes, that does look like Perl 4 from sometime last century.
If you have to make a password to meet the stupid 8 char requirement you
still sometimes see, this (nabbed from cmdlinefu, IIRC) works:
dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2>/dev/null | base64 | head -1 | cut -c4-11
They're pretty hostile passwords it makes. I mostly use it to make new,
instantly-forgotten Amazon/Ebay/$GamingSite passwords for the many, many
people who mistakenly think their email address is my gmail address.
Stewart
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