I don't get why everyone seems to suggest echoing your password and piping it to mkpassword. To my mind this only makes sense in a programmatic use-case where one wants to avoid the script from showing a prompt.
But when generating your password manually using mkpasswd interactively has one security advantage: you don't leave your clear-text password in your history!
So instead of echo "the password" | mkpasswd --stdin one would better just use mkpassword … IMHO.
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I don't get why everyone seems to suggest echoing your password and piping it to
mkpassword. To my mind this only makes sense in a programmatic use-case where one wants to avoid the script from showing a prompt.But when generating your password manually using
mkpasswdinteractively has one security advantage: you don't leave your clear-text password in your history!So instead of
echo "the password" | mkpasswd --stdinone would better just usemkpassword …IMHO.