Generate Random Password – Red Hat/CentOS

by | Oct 18, 2017 | RHEL / CentOS

There are instances wherein you want to generate random passwords for setting up credentials. There is a very simple random password generator in-built into Linux. Just run the below command.

# cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 24 | head -n24 | head -n1

Output:

[root@idm farooq.ahmed]# cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 24 | head -n24 | head -n1
gBE5LWroORn6mu3rCb3IguUx 

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