From 4cdad2d2ff060374c5f0263783897e7900d00990 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@drexel.edu>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:59:55 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add passwd-gen post and script.

---
 posts/passwd-gen.mdwn          | 13 +++++++++
 posts/passwd-gen/passwd-gen.sh | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 65 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 posts/passwd-gen.mdwn
 create mode 100755 posts/passwd-gen/passwd-gen.sh

diff --git a/posts/passwd-gen.mdwn b/posts/passwd-gen.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ddbb71d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/posts/passwd-gen.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+[[passwd-gen.sh]] is a `/dev/random` sanitizer for generating random
+passwords of various length and complexity.
+
+    $ ./passwd-gen.sh 16
+    NEmXOH2djJvUamdh
+    Length of password: 16
+    Total bytes read:   52
+
+The script is well commented, so there's not much more to say here...
+
+[[!tag tags/bash]]
+[[!tag tags/linux]]
+[[!tag tags/programming]]
diff --git a/posts/passwd-gen/passwd-gen.sh b/posts/passwd-gen/passwd-gen.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..5ddc9de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/posts/passwd-gen/passwd-gen.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2008-2010, William Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# generate a random password, defaults to 8 characters
+#
+# usage: passwd-gen [num-characters]
+
+# You may want to modify NC to get the best performance depending on
+# your usual choice of DEVICE and N.  For slower DEVICEs, it's better
+# to have lower NC (wastes less usable characters).  For faster
+# DEVICEs, it's better to have a higher NC (fewer slow shell loops).
+
+N=8                       # password length
+NC=4                      # number of characters in a "chunk"
+#SET="[:alnum:][:punct:]" # set of allowed characters (see tr(1))
+SET="[:alnum:]"
+DEVICE=/dev/random        # use /dev/urandom for faster, weaker passwords
+
+if [ -n "$1" ]
+then
+    N="$1"
+fi
+
+NA=0
+PWD=""
+while [ "$N" -gt 0 ]; do
+		ALL=$(head -c "$NC" "$DEVICE")
+		let "NA = NA + ${#ALL}"
+    NEW=$(echo "$ALL" | tr -d -c $SET | head -c "$N")
+    PWD="$PWD$NEW"
+    let "N = N - ${#NEW}"
+done
+
+echo "$PWD"
+echo "Length of password: ${#PWD}"
+echo "Total bytes read:   $NA"
+
+exit 0
-- 
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