Title: Port of the week: pwgen Author: Solène Date: 12 August 2016 Tags: security portoftheweek Description: I will talk about **security/pwgen** for the current port of the week. It's a very light executable to generate passwords. But it's not just a dumb password generator, it has options to choose what kind of password you want. Here is a list of options with their flag, you will find a lot more in the nice man page of pwgen: + -A : don't use capital letters + -B : don't use characters which could be missread (O/0, I/l/1 ...) + -v : don't use vowels + etc... You can also use a seed to generate your "random" password (which aren't very random in this case), you may need it for some reason to be able to reproduce password you lost for a ftp/http access for example. Example of pwgen output generating 5 password of 10 characters. Using -1 parameter so it will only display one password per line, otherwise it display a grid (on column and multiple lines) of passwords. $ pwgen -1 10 5 fohchah9oP haNgeik0ee meiceeW8ae OReejoi5oo ohdae2Eisu