With the recent Cloudflare hack ("CloudBleed"), I currently find myself resetting a bunch of passwords.

I tend to use very random passwords for most of my accounts, where each account uses a different random password. Thankfully, with tools like pwgen this is very quick and easy to do. Before using pwgen, I would normally go to a site like random.org to generate random passwords.

Using `pwgen` is very simple, just install it and type the command `pwgen.`

Install pwgen

sudo apt-get install pwgen

Generate random passwords

pwgen

This will display a bunch or random passwords. However, they're only 8 characters long by default, which nowadays is not very secure as modern GPU cards can easily brute force a password hash of 8 characters long.

Generate random passwords that are 20 characters long

pwgen 20

To control the number of passwords to display on the screen, simply use the -N flag.

Generate 100 random passwords that are 30 characters long

pwgen -N 100 30

Easy, right? :)