On Wednesday 11 June 2008 10:20:30 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow > me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts > or modifying existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to > generate a random string of characters. I know I can randomly hit the > keyboard but if anything like that exists, many thanks for your advice. > :)
That's a common problem I have, and most of the times I was on relying on BASH's $RANDOM. Just thought of this: sed -n 's/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&*()_+=-|\]//g; /^\(.\{10\}\).*/{ s//\1/p; q; }; b' /dev/urandom HTH, Nikos _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"