[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Daniel Martin writes: > > I'm just curious - how are you going to do this? The best way I came up > > with was: PASS=`head --bytes=16 /dev/urandom | md5sum` > > Clever, but it only produces hex. I want all letters and digits. > This what I'm using: > > until [ `expr "$PASSWORD" : ".*"` -ge 8 ] > do > PASSWORD=`head -c 100 /dev/urandom | tr -dc '[:alnum:]' | head -c 8` > done
Y'all do know about the pwgen and makepasswd packages, right? -- James
