[CentOS] Another Fedora decision

[John R Pierce]

On 2/5/2015 10:59 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> However, another password with similar characteristics would be fine.  
> You just never want to use it on more than one server to be safe..... 

there's a very useful tool built into centos's 'expect' package...

$  mkpasswd -l 15 -d 3 -C 5
5ufkpX at SDxa2DF3

$ mkpasswd -l 24 -d 3 -C 5
xRyijvCo4fhph!QcY46xbprK


$ rpm -qf `which mkpasswd`
expect-5.44.1.15-5.el6_4.x86_64

but, Dog save someone from having to type said passwords even once and 
get it correct.




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