Random Password generation through terminal

Passwords provide the first line of defense against unauthorized access. While using a corporate network we must always choose a strong password because more stronger it will be, the more protected we are from different attacks on our privacy.

Our linux provide this facility to generate a random password in a simple steps

# egrep -ioam1 ‘[a-zA-z0-9!@#$%^&*()_+=]{10}’  /dev/urandom

• a-z A-Z—- all the alphabets upper and lowercase
• 0-9 all numerals
• !-= all special characters
• we can also set the length we want of our password

We can choose the input characters from which we want to generate pasword.

Here is the screen-shot of the output of command.

Rajat Gangwar 5 Badges

• 5 Apr, 2014
  Created by - Rajat Gangwar