Generate Simple Relatively Easy to Remember Passwords using pwmake on Linux

To generate simple easy to remember passwords on Linux, you can use pwmake command. If you like to watch videos to learn then I got a YouTube video about this blog at Youtube: Generate Simple Relatively Easy to Remember Passwords using pwmake on Linux.

pwmake command accepts one parameter, that is an entropy. The entropy determines how hard the password is to crack. Simply more entropy means more security.

The minimum entropy value you should use is 56, but you can change it to anything you need.

You can install pwmake on Ubuntu using the following command.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libpwquality-tools cracklib-runtime

Let's generate a simple password. Run the following command.

pwmake 56
Ytuq1yx-ilUl

The command returns Ytuq1yx-ilUl, a 12 character password. This is the output I got, the output you will get will definitely be different.

Now, let's generate a more secure password

pwmake 128
@tm0SOnrAf3vUpRuN4x&4ssAtry

That's a long password.

Anyway, I hope you got the point.

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