How To Generate Passwords
Secure passwords can be generated with the pwgen command. By default, it will print 160 8 character passwords, but for demonstration purposes we’ll limit it to printing four passwords:
$ pwgen -N 4
Phia2eik Thee9meo aeTh6noo yie3Bi0j
If you want more obscure passwords, try this command:
$ pwgen -csny -N 4
Y.7u@pbi Y>A%^R7] <aN(F:7! [+Q<7bAB
Full details of are in the pwgen(1) man page, which you can access with:
man pwgen
