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Oct
31
2019
MySQL Random Password Generation
Posted by Dave Stokes on Thu 31 Oct 2019 17:10 UTC
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Many years ago I was working at a university and had to create accounts for students every semester.  Each account needed a random password and there were several hacks used to do that.  One of the new features in MySQL 8.0.18 is the ability to have the system generate a random password.

Example

  SQL > create user 'Foo'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY RANDOM PASSWORD;
+------+------+----------------------+
| user | host | generated password   |
+------+------+----------------------+
| Foo  | %    | Ld]5/Fkn[Kk29/g/M;>n |
+------+------+----------------------+
1 row in set (0.0090 sec)

Another Example

SQL > ALTER USER 'Foo'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY RANDOM PASSWORD;
+------+------+----------------------+
| user | host | generated password   |
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