[GTALUG] Recommended Linux Password Lengths

Alvin Starr alvin at netvel.net
Thu Jun 2 13:31:09 EDT 2016


Jan's version is kind of nicer than just random chracters because the 
result looks somewhat like pronounceable words if you like English.

That makes it slightly more memorable than something truly random.


On 06/02/2016 01:04 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> On 2016-06-02 12:13 PM, Alvin Starr wrote:
>> A lot of years ago Jan Carlson wrote a userfriendly password generator.
> 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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