How to generate the password from shell (SSH)?

By Gunjan · November 13, 2009

If you use SSH, use mkpasswd command for creating passwords…

root@gunjan[~]#mkpasswd -l 10 -d 3 -C 3 -s 2
L]4P@V6ii3

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