Random AlphaNumeric Passwords
Created on April 16, 2026
commandline
I used random base64 to create passwords. But when using with postgres, it will require URL-encoding the string. Here is how to create a random password with just alphanumeric characters.
tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9' < /dev/urandom | head -c 32
# or ...
openssl rand -base64 48 | tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9' | head -c 32