Attached is a Universal Password Generator. 'Universal' as it should work under any Puppy. It is the result of some research by me and a lot of good suggestions by several Puppy devs who actually know how to program. At best, I muddle. Special thanks to MochiMoppel and williams both of whose solutions worked. For a complete history see this thread, viewtopic.php?p=141014#p141014.
Basically, I wanted an application (with a menu entry) to generate random/secure passwords without having to go online or run a program under Wine. The above thread will provide links to a couple good applications that will generate 'Pass Phrases'. Pass Phrases are a string of words chosen randomly. They may be more secure than passwords because of their length. And may be easier for someone to remember than random symbols. Someone, but not me. And AFAICT, passphrase generators run under python. So I opted for the 'simpler' solution.
The operative code uses urandom and is
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for i in $(seq 1 10); do echo $(tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9!"#$%&()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~' < /dev/urandom | head -c 16); done > /tmp/passwords.txt
defaulttexteditor /tmp/passwords.txtIf you want to change it (/root/my-applications/bin/passgen):
"seq 1 to 10" defines how many passwords will be generated; as is 10
"$(tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9!"#$%&()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~'" specifies what symbols to randomly use; and
"head -c 16" specifies the length of each password, as is 16: The longer, the longer it will take for a hacker to find the password by trial and error, especially if your limit the number of trials before freezing him/her out.
After generating passwords they are exported to a text file in /tmp which is automatically opened in your default text-editor. Files in /tmp are not preserved accross reboots nor the execution of a Save.
If the following pet is installed this Application will show up as Menu>Personal Category>Password Generator.
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