using /dev/urandom for something useful

I saw Germ's earlier post about using /dev/urandom to make a big text file and I was wondering if I could use the same command for something useful like generate passwords. I asked in the #lugradio channel on the Freenode IRC server and I was told that if I use the fallowing command to make passwords.

Mez created a bash script using urandom to make passwords.

To install it use the following commands

cd /usr/bin

sudo wget http://slightlyunstable.org/files/genpwd

sudo chmod +x genpwd

Now whenever you want a password you just type in

genpwd [length]

Thanks a ton, Mez

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