By fernando | February 4, 2009

Generating random salts from bash

From the ‘just because it can be done’ column, here comes a handy shell script to generate random salts. So, without further ado,  here it goes: #!/bin/bash [ $# -eq 0 ] && { echo “usage: salt <length>”>&2 exit } strings </dev/urandom | while read line; do echo $line | tr ‘\n\t ‘ $RANDOM:0:1 >> [...]