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How to Generate/Encrypt/Decrypt Random Passwords in Linux

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November 2, 2018
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We have taken initiative to produce Linux tips and tricks series. If you’ve missed the last article of this series, you may like to visit the link below.

  1. 5 Interesting Command Line Tips and Tricks in Linux

In this article, we will share some interesting Linux tips and tricks to generate random passwords and also how to encrypt and decrypt passwords with or without slat method.

Security is one of the major concern of digital age. We put on password to computers, email, cloud, phone, documents and what not. We all know the basic to choose the password that is easy to remember and hard to guess. What about some sort of machine based password generation automatically? Believe me Linux is very good at this.

1. Generate a random unique password of length equal to 10 characters using command ‘pwgen‘. If you have not installed pwgen yet, use Apt or YUM to get.

$ pwgen 10 1

How to Generate/Encrypt/Decrypt Random Passwords in Linux

Generate several random unique passwords of character length 50 in one go!

$ pwgen 50

How to Generate/Encrypt/Decrypt Random Passwords in Linux

2. You may use ‘makepasswd‘ to generate random, unique password of given length as per choice. Before you can fire makepasswd command, make sure you have installed it. If not! Try installing the package ‘makepasswd’ using Apt or YUM.

Generate a random password of character length 10. Default Value is 10.

$ makepasswd 

How to Generate/Encrypt/Decrypt Random Passwords in Linux

Generate a random password of character length 50.

$ makepasswd  --char 50

How to Generate/Encrypt/Decrypt Random Passwords in Linux

Generate 7 random password of 20 characters.

$ makepasswd --char 20 --count 7

How to Generate/Encrypt/Decrypt Random Passwords in Linux

3. Encrypt a password using crypt along with salt. Provide salt manually as well as automatically.

For those who may not be aware of salt,

Salt is a random data which servers as an additional input to one way function in order to protect password against dictionary attack.

Make sure you have installed mkpasswd installed before proceeding.

The below command will encrypt the password with salt. The salt value is taken randomly and automatically. Hence every time you run the below command it will generate different output because it is accepting random value for salt every-time.

$ mkpasswd tecmint

How to Generate/Encrypt/Decrypt Random Passwords in Linux

Now lets define the salt. It will output the same result every-time. Note you can input anything of your choice as salt.

$ mkpasswd tecmint -s tt

How to Generate/Encrypt/Decrypt Random Passwords in Linux

Moreover, mkpasswd is interactive and if you don’t provide password along with the command, it will ask password interactively.

4. Encrypt a string say “Tecmint-is-a-Linux-Community” using aes-256-cbc encryption using password say “tecmint” and salt.

# echo Tecmint-is-a-Linux-Community | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -a -salt -pass pass:tecmint

How to Generate/Encrypt/Decrypt Random Passwords in Linux

Here in the above example the output of echo command is pipelined with openssl command that pass the input to be encrypted using Encoding with Cipher (enc) that uses aes-256-cbc encryption algorithm and finally with salt it is encrypted using password (tecmint).

5. Decrypt the above string using openssl command using the -aes-256-cbc decryption.

# echo U2FsdGVkX18Zgoc+dfAdpIK58JbcEYFdJBPMINU91DKPeVVrU2k9oXWsgpvpdO/Z | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -a -d -salt -pass pass:tecmint

How to Generate/Encrypt/Decrypt Random Passwords in Linux

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Source: tecmint.com

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