date +%s | md5 | cut -c -12
Okay, the consensus in the comments seems to be that this does not make great passwords. I’m happy with its level of randomness, but of course I agree that only numbers and lowercase letters does not provide for maximum security.
Looks like there is a password generating program called pwgen, or to generate acceptably random passwords without installing extra software:
openssl rand 9 -base64
(btw– my purpose here is to generate passwords for things like mysql accounts, so they do not need to be human-memorable)
