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Random Passwords Anyone ?
bitsnpcs:
Hold down Ctrl and Alt keys and press t (Ctrl Alt + t)
Copy/paste (or type) in to your terminal -
--- Code: ---strings /dev/urandom | grep -o '[[:alnum:]]' | head -n 30 | tr -d '\n'; echo
--- End code ---
An example
bitsnpcs:
Hello @ian_r_h ,
thank you for the answer about KeypassX :)
Are you using the Linux Bible with RHEL, Fedora, or Ubuntu Gnome, as its wrote for these, or another distro ?
I didn't get far with it, Chapter 2 Gnome Extensions, it kept asking for the root password and wouldn't accept it, unsure what mistake I made, so I have removed it from VirtualBox and have not gotten around to putting it back to try again yet.
Update -
I have reinstalled Fedora27 workstation, in VirtualBox on Linux Lite this morning, and have found where I went wrong on the install.
So have managed to get the browser and install working on Fedora and the Gnome extensions is working, and I've added some menus, top and bottom panel, and changed the workspace switcher, as in the book.
Not in the book also done 1366 updates, including the kernel and headers.
The book sort of misses out all of this, and skips to using the Gnome extensions.
Cannot get the run script to work for the guest additions, as it says it needs to be installed in Fedora guest not on the host machine, so its next one to work on. This is also not covered in the book.
It means I have managed to get .......... 2 pages further in Chapter 2 of the book now :) , not much but I'm still happy for the movement, I am where it says to jump to Chapter 10 for installing some stuff. :o
(Maybe guest additions is covered there)
Update 2 -
have got the guest additions installed now. :)
done the clone, and some installs. Moving forward a tiny bit quicker now.
ian_r_h:
To answer the question I missed that you posed, KeypassX is available in the Lite Software list I believe - I use that myself as a password store.
My plan for this year is to continue working through the Linux Bible, and then move onto learning the depths of the terminal from Beginning the Linux Command Line. (Both references below, should anyone want to explore the two books.)
Thanks to everyone here for LL - I've fallen in love with computing again. Assuming use of the term "computing" doesn't betray my age! Trying to convince friends and family to give LL a go, now that they are finding Windows 10 hard-going! ;D
Negus, Christopher. 2015. Linux Bible (9th Ed.) Wiley. ISBN 978-1-118-99987-5.
Van Vugt, Sander. 2009. Beginning the Linux Command Line. Apress. ISBN 978-1-4302-1889-0.
(New versions of each may be available.)
bitsnpcs:
Hold down Ctrl and Alt keys and press t (Ctrl Alt + t)
Copy/paste (or type) in to your terminal -
--- Code: ---date +%s | sha256sum | base64 | head -c 32 ; echo
--- End code ---
An example
bitsnpcs:
Hold down Ctrl and Alt keys and press t (Ctrl Alt + t)
Copy/paste (or type) in to your terminal -
--- Code: ---openssl rand -base64 32
--- End code ---
An example
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