[pass] Generate numeric passwords

James Cline lenish at gmail.com
Wed Dec 24 23:45:00 CET 2014


Using $RANDOM like that is a bad idea, it's not designed for secure random
password generation.
On Dec 24, 2014 2:40 PM, "Matthew Cengia" <mattcen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2014-12-24 23:28, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > Want to write to upstream pwgen about adding an option for this?
>
> Alterntively:
>
>   echo $RANDOM
>
> Or use 'apg' instead:
>
>   apg -MN -a1 -m1
>
> --
> Regards,
> Matthew Cengia
>
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