Re: password in recovery.conf [SOLVED]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 6:40 PM, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:

> On 9/26/2014 4:32 PM, Nelson Green wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks Bosco, DrakoRod, and Adrian. Between the three of you it became
>> obvious
>> that I was doing something wrong. And yes, in the end you were right.
>> Doubling
>> the quote does indeed work.
>>
>> It turns out it this particular password also had a \ in it, and my
>> console
>> width wrapped right before it, putting it as the first character on the
>> next
>> line, where I just didn't notice it until a few minutes ago. I changed
>> that to
>> a ^ for the time being, and then doubled the quote whereupon it all
>> worked. I
>> will certainly look into how to escape the backslash too, but that's for
>> next
>> week at this point.
>>
>
> I'd consider using `mkpasswd -l 15 -s 0` just to avoid any such
> problems. 15 random alphanumerics is already plenty complex, 62^15th
> possible combinations, without needing to mix in special characters.
>
> $ mkpasswd -l 15 -s 0
> eec1kj7ZsthlYmh
>

Thanks John. We use apg which has similar options. But alas, I must comply
with
organizational password policies.

Regards,
Nelson