5 Ways To Generate Secure Passwords On Linux

It has become more crucial than ever to use strong passwords for your online accounts. Without a secure password, it’s easy for others to crack yours. It’s great if you can come up with a good password on your own, but if you are out of ideas or feel like your own ideas aren’t secure enough, you can get your computer to spit one out for you.
It’s worth the effort, so let’s get right to it. Here are five ways you can generate brand new, secure passwords you can trust.

APG
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The Automatic Password Generator, or APG for short, comes installed on all Ubuntu systems. It’s an easy to use utility which can give you various passwords based on the random input from your keyboard. For example, you can run apg in a terminal and it will offer six “pronounceable” passwords. They’re meant to be pronounceable in order to make them somewhat more memorable, although the majority of them are still very random. If you’d like entirely random passwords, you can run apg -a 1, which will give you passwords with 8-10 completely random characters. Of course, this is also only after you’ve given it some random input using your keyboard.

PWGEN
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linux pwgen pwgen 5 Ways To Generate Secure Passwords On Linux

pwgen is another utility that is just a quick installation away with the command sudo apt-get install pwgen. Simply running the command pwgen will flood your terminal with many passwords, so you’re just supposed to pick one at random (preferrably not the first or last one). This is done in case someone is nearby or looking over your shoulder — that way they won’t know which password you’ve chosen out of the many that are displayed.

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