Hi I have a bash script I wrote for my plesk installation.
It triggers when a new subscription is created and does the following:
<ul>
<li>Generates a password in a given format using two random symbols</li>
<li>Creates the db in plesk via cli</li>
<li>Downloads and unpacks wordpress to the httpdocs dir of that subscirption</li>
<li>Configures the wp-config.php for the site</li>
<li>Mails me the config details</li>
</ul>
One problem though is sometimes I generate two symbols that seem to invalidate my password string. I think it's because some symbols need escaping in bash and it's not happening. Is there a way I can randomly grab two symbols from an array of "allowed" symbols?
Here is my genPassword() function
It triggers when a new subscription is created and does the following:
<ul>
<li>Generates a password in a given format using two random symbols</li>
<li>Creates the db in plesk via cli</li>
<li>Downloads and unpacks wordpress to the httpdocs dir of that subscirption</li>
<li>Configures the wp-config.php for the site</li>
<li>Mails me the config details</li>
</ul>
One problem though is sometimes I generate two symbols that seem to invalidate my password string. I think it's because some symbols need escaping in bash and it's not happening. Is there a way I can randomly grab two symbols from an array of "allowed" symbols?
Here is my genPassword() function
Code:
genpasswd() {
local pass=`cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd "[:punct:]" | head -c 2`
echo "$pass"
echo "INFO: genpasswd() ran successfully" >> /usr/run.log
}