random generated password

[Michael Sierchio]

Sorry, typo in cut-and-paste.

# dd if=/dev/random count=1 | tr -c "[:alnum:]"
'0-9A-Za-z0-9A-Za-z0-9A-Za-z' ; echo
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
#

I'll leave it to you to pick out 9 chars for the seed and 31 chars for
the rest, as in

$1$zNvPGEVzC$Z0QQRMUjtzcJJXRlKNPfVFCTEol0pdP


On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Michael Sierchio <kudzu at tenebras.com> wrote:
> dd if=/dev/random count=1 | tr -c "[:alnum:]"
> '0-9A-Za-z0-9A-Za-z0-9A-Za-a-z0-9A-Za-z'
>
> will give you the right kind of characters to use, for example.
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Michael Sierchio <kudzu at tenebras.com> wrote:
>> Presumably you're doing this to prevent direct login?
>>
>> chpass allows root to set the encrypted password directly
>>
>> chpass -p '$1$123456789$your-random-chars-here'
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Michael <mlmichael70 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> When adding a new user it is possible to assign a random generated password.
>>> But is it possible to assign a random password for already existing users?
>>>
>>> Preferably in a non-interactive and scriptable way. Is it possible with the
>>> base system tools?
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
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