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Christopher Tubbs edited comment on ACCUMULO-1276 at 4/15/13 6:58 PM:
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I like the tr -dc method:
{code}
tr -dc '#-~' < /dev/urandom | head -c 20
{code}
But, I don't see why we should generate a password at all... we should prompt
for one instead. The responsibility for securing the a certificate should be
that of the user, not our script.
was (Author: ctubbsii):
I like the tr -dc method:
{code}
tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9_$%^&@!' < /dev/urandom | head -c 20 | xargs
{code}
But, I don't see why we should generate a password at all... we should prompt
for one instead. The responsibility for securing the a certificate should be
that of the user, not our script.
> problems running generate_monitor_certificate.sh
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>
> Key: ACCUMULO-1276
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1276
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: scripts
> Affects Versions: 1.4.3
> Reporter: David Medinets
> Assignee: Eric Newton
>
> I tried to run the generate_monitor_certificate.sh script on an Ubuntu VM
> and saw the following message:
> root@li459-74:/usr/local/accumulo# bin/generate_monitor_certificate.sh
> tail: cannot open `+2' for reading: No such file or directory
> I briefly looked into the script but don't know enough about /dev/random to
> debug much.
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