pwgen generates random, meaningless but pronounceable passwords.

pwgen can be used to generate strong passwords and is very handy if you have to come up with lots of passwords for user accounts. Typing “pwgen” will default to listing 8 colums of passwords, but you can also “pwgen -1″ to be given just one. Lots of switches can be found by doing a “pwgen -h”, and will allow you to set what characters and numbers etc will be used.

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