Adduser utility to generate "random" passwds ?

[Ivan Voras]

Ivan Voras wrote:
> Frank Bonnet wrote:
> 
>> I want to generate new "strong" password for existing users.
> 
> Here's an idea:
> 
> $ head -c 64 /dev/random | md5 | head -c 10

... or, following the upthread discussion, a preferable alternative:

> openssl rand -base64 6

This will generate a strong password of 8 characters[*] with 6 bits of
entropy each (48 bits total), which is as strong as it gets.




[*] literally: 6 random bytes encoded with base64 to 8 ASCII characters

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