[pass] Generate numeric passwords

Matthew Cengia mattcen at gmail.com
Thu Dec 25 00:11:35 CET 2014


On 2014-12-24 14:45, James Cline wrote:
> Using $RANDOM like that is a bad idea, it's not designed for secure random
> password generation.

Apologies, you're right; I thought $RANDOM used /dev/random, as opposed
to random(), but it sounds like I'm incorrect. I therefore fall back to
apg as a suggestion.

-- 
Regards,
Matthew Cengia
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