On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Ted Unangst wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011, Han Boetes wrote:
> > I have this nice password generator which I use on my work, mostly
> > linux based:
> > 
> > < /dev/urandom tr -dc "[:graph:]" | head -c 12; echo
> > 
> > Of course this isn't portable so I rewrote it to:
> > 
> > < /dev/arandom tr -dc "[:graph:]" | iconv -c -t ASCII | dd count=1 bs=12
> > 2> /dev/null; echo
> > 
> > Now you may look at it and wonder what's the 'iconv -c -t ASCII |'
> > is doing in there. If you remove it you'll notice weird characters
> > slipping through.
> 
> Actually, I don't.  Do you have an example of a weird character being
> let through?

This was probably fixed post-5.0 by stsp@'s change to 
lib/libc/gen/ctype_.c


Philip Guenther

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