When you're working on different projects, each project will have it's own username, password, and set of access permissions. It's handy to have a quick and easy password generator that generates nice long secure passwords when you create each user for each project.

To generate passwords like this, we'll create an alias that executes a command that prints out six different passwords for us to choose from.

First, we need to install a package, named apg. apg is the software that generates the passwords. We'll use it and customize it's output in our Unix alias.

To Install Packages On Ubuntu:

# apt-get update && apt-get install apg

To Install Packages On Mac:

Based on:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50119657/how-to-install-apg-password-generator-on-osx

On the Mac Terminal, type:

$ brew tap jzaleski/homebrew-jzaleski
$ brew install apg

On Mac or Ubuntu

$ cat >> ~/.bashrc << EOF

# add alias to generate mysql user passwords
alias mypw='apg -a 1 -M ncl -n 6 -m 32'
EOF

make active

$ source ~/.bashrc

Then, whenever we want to generate a password, we just go to the Terminal and type:

$ mypw
WMxGD2e18ppbtOvNHMpCUDYRSCAGxqsK
cWg6k0aSMBH0A9WEYHUYCBKLuqBeRYUM
jm1Dp7rt54kS21tn219tnXEedLhNjKtu
Klqx1e6QGZX3CHZNdpR39aq2VbpxvrQL
HgVa3uS5t6Jxi0vrjtvSdxVNFNhU7J6t
8Z2MlE4OA7ntkFmNVSkEqzhMlGkKM6Dq