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<p>Passwords are the key to security. For obvious reasons, passwords need to be strong, long and secure.  Sometimes generating complex and secure passwords can be a bit time taking.</p>
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<h2> Generate a Strong Password using Commandline</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>There are many ways in which we can generate a password. Follow these steps to generate a strong password that is also random.</p>
<p>1.  Visit a password generating website of the kind of <a href="http://passwordsgenerator.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passwordsgenerator.net</a></p>
<p>2. Use the md5sum tool to generate a random password.  We need to find something which is constantly changing so that we will get new md5sum whenever we do the command. So, I choose to check the md5sum of the current date, and it is always changing.</p>
<p>So use date |md5sum to generate a random password from command line.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>And <em>Voila! you&#8217;ve successfully generated a strong password.</em></p>
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