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How to generate and check strong passwords in Linux

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Introduction Different operations require different security layers. Accessing your email account, your social media, your bank account, and a remote server that you administer through SSH all need different security layers, and contain data which hold different “weight”. But, in order to accessing all these operations, you will always require the same thing:  a password . We all know that a strong password is what you really need in order to be protected from attacks, and, of course, we all know that it’s better to use different passwords for different services. A very unwise decision (and common mistake) would be using your server password to access Facebook. This decision could cause you lots of trouble. So how can we easily manage the task of creating strong passwords? In this tutorial, we will talk about how to generate and check your passwords . Generate a strong password A strong password should be composed of a mix of alphabet characters, numbers, and symbols. A se...