Re: gnome-password-generator replacement?

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On 18.06.2017, stan wrote: 

> It doesn't have a gui that I know of, but I use pwgen from the Fedora
> repositories.  It warns that the passwords are less secure than fully
> random passwords

Pwgen uses /dev/urandom, so the statement that those passwords are
less secure than "fully" random passwords (define "fully random"..) is
merely of academical nature.

In case of any doubt, you can always do something like

 head /dev/random | tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | head -c X

where X is your password length. Tr also lets you tailor the
characterset used.

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