Re: A couple of password pointers to avoid failed login(1) via cu(1)

[Philippe Meunier]

minek van wrote:
>generating a 63 character long password with random stuff
>
>tr -dc "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789 
>\!\"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\\]^_\`{|}~"</dev/urandom|fold -w63 | head -1

tr -cd "[:print:]" < /dev/random | fold -w 63 | head -1

or

tr -cd "[:alnum:][:punct:]" < /dev/random | fold -w 63 | head -1

if one doesn't like spaces.

Cheers,

Philippe