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# 8  
Old 09-04-2014
I don't really have a choice here, I have to follow what the security team decides, and they want special characters in the passwords --'
# 9  
Old 09-04-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by gfroute
Hello,

I have created a script to generate a random password on Linux/Solaris, but I simply cannot use it on my AIX VMs since Bash isn't installed on them.

I need a password that is randomly created with the following characters:
0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!@;:[].{}+=<>#|()^&_0123456789

And that's where the problem is.. those special characters are excluded from commands such as makekey.

Here's what I've done for Linux:
Code:
MATRICE="0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!@;:[].{}+=<>#|()^&_0123456789"
n=1
PASSWD=""
while [ "$n" -le 7]
do
  PASSWD="$PASSWD${MATRICE:$(($RANDOM%${#MATRICE})):1}"
  let n+=1
done

Any ideas how I can generate a random password that doesn't require bash installed, and that takes into account all the special characters?

Thanks!
I was surprised that this worked with bash; there should be a space between the 7 and the ] in the line marked in red above. If you add a space there, this script will also work with ksh93. Is ksh93 available on the older AIX releases?
# 10  
Old 09-08-2014
Could I suggest that @ & # are excluded?

Some OS versions treat these strangley, e.g @ as end of password. We now advise all users to avoid them along with the pound sign £ because that can be translated to # and therefore cause problems. Perhaps other currency symbols have the same risks.




Robin
# 11  
Old 09-08-2014
That was what I was talking about Robin... haha you worked with HP...
And my point of vue is that here we use the country's keyboard layout, but how many time I got caught when in computer room I had in front of me a qwerty US keyboard... and having to desperatly try to guess where thos *** of char are hidden - and worse typing without being able to see the output, not mentionning the HP that with 3 bad passwd lock the accounts ( I corrected that later because it was just a nightmare...)
I still sometimes cant connect to some hosts because of locale issues with passwords that is why I tend to say yes all the chars but only those that are the same in ALL CHARSET and forget about the others for root...
# 12  
Old 09-08-2014
Yes! Smilie

To my shame I have two HP-UX 11.11 servers Smilie The hardware is about 12 years old and inherited from a merger where in their wisdom, all the tech support of the other side were let go before we'd even logged on. We had to learn bdf rather than df and daft things like that. Well, it's helped keep me employed for a few years..... maybe until mid-next year anyway.



Robin
# 13  
Old 09-08-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by rbatte1
We had to learn bdf rather than df and daft things like that.
Well, i suggest you ask Sam. ;-))

Regarding the problem at hand:

A ksh93 is provided in standard AIX as /usr/bin/ksh93 since either 5.1 or 5.2, i can't remember which.

If you want a bash You can download it freely from either Michael Perzls site (which i can wholeheartedly recommend - his efforts put IBMs "Linux Affinity" program to shame singlehandedly) or from IBMs "AIX Toolbox for Linux" page or even from Bulls "Freeware for AIX" page.

Btw., the bash package is called "freeware.bash.<something>" and it is an rpm package, so searching for "bash*" will not yield any results, even if it is installed. Search for "freeware.*" instead.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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