/mkpw

Generates strong passwords for linux logins

Primary LanguageShellGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

mkpw

Description

Generates random secure passwords suitable for linux logins, prints out the cleartext password and the corresponding sha-512 hash.

Requirements

  • mkpasswd

mkpasswd is provided by the package whois, on debian based distributions run the following command to install it:

apt install whois

Usage

See mkpw -h.