If the purpose is to make login unusable, starring the password is the only 100% safe way...
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Michael Sierchio <ku...@tenebras.com> wrote: > 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" > _______________________________________________ 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"
