Password generators are now in abundance. Particularly surprising are the many web applications for this purpose. The service honestly admits that it generates passwords on the server side and it is contraindicated to use them for anything serious. Other services claim to generate passwords locally using JavaScript, but whether or not to take their word for it and whether their approach ensures that leaks are safe is a tricky one. random.org At the same time, a random password generator has been present in the repositories of all Linux distributions since the nineties and is called . Many passwords that you have received in your life are most likely generated by him. pwgen Interestingly, its author is Theodore Tso, the one who developed the ext2 filesystem and its journaled versions ext3 and ext4. For example, 16 1 will generate one sixteen character password. pwgen $ pwgen 16 1 iy1naeZeeNguchae If you do not specify the second argument (the number of passwords), then by default in interactive mode will generate as many as eighty passwords - four columns of twenty lines. As conceived by the authors, this should protect the user from those who like to look into someone else's screen. pwgen So if you starting an online site, an eCommerce shop or any other use case that requires a password, the user generates a whole password table and copies or memorizes one random one from it. In this case, an attacker or an excessively curious office colleague will not be able to find out which password out of eight dozen the user has chosen. In the days of massive remote work, this argument seems a bit taut, and it is doubtful that passwords are so easy to remember. In modern times, the option is much more useful, which generates completely random passwords with no claim to readability. You can also add -B / - ambiguous to it, which excludes appearance-like characters like O / 0 and 1 / I from the output. -s / - secure $ pwgen -sB 16 1 PiVRps3erAngsmeb

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