Horray for pwgen

I wanted to generate a new password today and I decided I would try a command
line utility that does just that. It’s called pwgen.

hank@rura-penthe ~ $ sudo apt-get install pwgen
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  pwgen
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 18.7kB of archives.
After unpacking 77.8kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.osuosl.org edgy/main pwgen 2.05-1ubuntu1 [18.7kB]
Fetched 18.7kB in 0s (28.2kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package pwgen.
(Reading database ... 173873 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking pwgen (from .../pwgen_2.05-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up pwgen (2.05-1ubuntu1) ...

Now the fun begins.

hank@rura-penthe ~ $ pwgen -sy 16 10
YaQcm?3@Ty~c=U|$     cthv{@O*|X79&=k_     |Fr&PH#b2%.>}*Wo     rOtTfJ^.GP=l{L41
Wb?%i[42y'Q'pF+F     0M`N9{I:8;9Eii}<     *vP~-N,ofuIXE{`1     ^Rq[?xm#"\1EQ~wl
'I9JIktnw`bW@zH>     >/FD6+tdc;+SINHx

Now, I have a bunch of passwords to select from. -s gives me ‘secure’
passwords which are very hard to remember. Lucky for me I have a good memory
for hard to remember things (though things that are easy to remember escape
me). -y gives me symbols since a larger character set always enhances a
password. Now, I’m all set to do battle.