The "hanging" behavior seems to be happening because makepasswd reads from /dev/random. A workaround is to mash keys or move the mouse to generate entropy. This only works if you have physical access to the machine. It doesn't work if you're logged in via SSH.
The man page for makepasswd advertises that makepasswd uses /dev/urandom. I believe/assume that this was the behavior in 14.04, since I've only had this problem in 16.04. I'd like to suggest changing it back to /dev/urandom. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1573974 Title: makepasswd hangs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/makepasswd/+bug/1573974/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
