That occurred to me, but it's a smaller alphabet. Probably doesn't matter if the purpose is to make login unusable.
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Randal L. Schwartz <mer...@stonehenge.com> wrote: >>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Sierchio <ku...@tenebras.com> writes: > > Michael> dd if=/dev/random count=1 | tr -c "[:alnum:]" > Michael> '0-9A-Za-z0-9A-Za-z0-9A-Za-a-z0-9A-Za-z' > > Michael> will give you the right kind of characters to use, for example. > > I prefer "openssl rand -base64 6" to get an 8-char password from a > fairly large set of sensible characters. Each multiple of 3 results in 4 > characters in the output. > > -- > Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 > <mer...@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> > Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. > See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
