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mkolb/password-salt.el

Created May 21, 2012 16:11
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A function for generating a password salt in moodle, useful for first-time creation of config.php
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password-salt.el
(defun insert-password-salt ()
"Insert a string of length 31 suitable for a new password salt in moodle."
(interactive)
(let ((mycharset "1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstyvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!@#$%^&*()"))
(dotimes (i 31)
(insert (elt mycharset (random (length mycharset)))))))
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