Laptop Legal » command line http://www.laptoplegal.com Law pratice management for the solo and small firm mobile legal professional Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:00:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Random passwords in Mac OSX’s terminal http://www.laptoplegal.com/2008/random-passwords-in-mac-osxs-terminal/ http://www.laptoplegal.com/2008/random-passwords-in-mac-osxs-terminal/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:08:53 +0000 Jordan http://www.laptoplegal.com/?p=24 I’m trying to harden up my blog installs and needed to generate some random passwords.  Apparently you can generate these from the Terminal, OSX’s command line interface.

Read more at Wobito: Free Random Password Generator for Mac

His code is:

> openssl rand -base64 6

This generates a 6 character string.  I wanted something a bit more secure, so I upped it to 12 characters by typing the following:

> openssl rand -base64 12

Enjoy!

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