mkpass

mkpass is a CLI utility to generate passwords from the command-line. All random characters are generated by /dev/urandom.

By default passwords are 64 characters long and may contain any printable ASCII character. If you would like to specify the password length, you can use the -l command-line option. If you would like to specify the set of characters to use in the password, you can provide a set of characters or a range in the same form as tr(1).

For example to generate a 40 character long password containing only the numbers 0–9 and the uppercase-characters A–F:

$ mkpass -l 40 0-9A-F
379A2E98B2BE03A5F4B2F5AC39F4FD8429B2CAFD

Installation

Installation is easy by using the provided Makefile:

$ sudo make install