How to generate secure passwords using terminal (Mac/Linux) ?

Manzeel Uprety
3 min readJun 11, 2021

Passwords protect you from unauthorized access to your computer 💻, application, and other personal information (credit card info, ssn no, etc). The stronger your passwords, the more secured you are.

In today’s date, with everything online, it has become important to secure yourself with stronger passwords to protect yourself from hackers with wrong intent, and malicious software.

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It is always advised to create a password with letters, numbers, and special characters as they are pretty difficult to crack. A wide variety of sites provide you with an online tool to generate secure password.

The biggest concern with online password generator is you are never sure whether the company of the password generator will know your new password or not.How will you know if the password generator’s site has been compromised or not? The password you may have generated from a site might have been compromised and decoded in another place.

There are different password manager applications like LastPass, Dashlane, etc that generates secure password that are safe to use. If you are a MacOS or a Linux, it is easy very easy to generate safe and secure passwords.

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Manzeel Uprety
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