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Is it possible to access, the "password assistant" also known as the password generator located inside the Keychain Access via terminal or otherwise?

Steps to access in UI:

  • Launch Keychain Access
  • New password item
  • Select padlock item (generate password)
  • Create random password according to security level
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Your exact question has been asked on Stackoverflow in 2009. The answers did not provide a way to access the Keychain password generator, but did suggest some alternatives.

A Google search for mac terminal password generator also shows several ways to generate a password from Terminal. I have listed a couple below.

openssl rand -base64 6

You can change -base64 to -hex to limit the use of special characters. The 6 indicates the lenght of the password.

env LC_CTYPE=C tr -dc "a-zA-Z0-9-_\$\?" < /dev/urandom | head -c 10

The "a-zA-Z0-9-_\$\?" part indicates allowed characters and the 10 defines the length.

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