[erlang-questions] Password generator in Erlang

[Raimo Niskanen]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:42:06AM +1200, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
> 
> On 15/08/2012, at 4:44 AM, Loïc Hoguin wrote:
> 
> > On 08/14/2012 06:09 PM, Zabrane Mickael wrote:
> >> 
> >> On Aug 14, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Loïc Hoguin wrote:
> >> 
> >>> os:cmd("pwgen | cut -c 1-8").
> >> 
> >> a portable one ;-)
> > 
> > I believe pwgen and cut are available on all of win/linux/bsd/osx.
> 
> m% man pwgen
> No manual entry for pwgen
> 
> Mac OS X 10.6.8.
> 
> v% man pwgen
> No manual entry for pwgen
> 
> Linux 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64
> 
> f% man pwgen
> No manual entry for pwgen.
> 
> Solaris.
> 
> Available?  May be, I don't know.
> Installed?  NO.

And the same applies to Ubuntu, FreeBSD and OpenBSD...

This might be more portable:
  openssl rand -base64 6 | tr +/ .,

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