From df740adc6ef32c1bff4f69404a5a882b0bfe4bdf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Ohlsson <crille@crille.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 13:22:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add script to set random password for a user

Script generates a random password for a specified user and updates it in both the system and MySQL.
---
 setRandomPasswordForUser.sh | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 setRandomPasswordForUser.sh

diff --git a/setRandomPasswordForUser.sh b/setRandomPasswordForUser.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c03d759
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setRandomPasswordForUser.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# setRandomPasswordForUser.sh
+#
+# Sätter ett slumpat lösenor på en viss användare
+#
+# Christian Ohlsson 2021-12-01
+# Version 1.1
+# Gruppen ska vara www-data på Debian
+
+if [ "$#" -lt 1 -o "$#" -gt 2 ]; then
+ echo "Usage:`basename $0` username"
+    exit 1
+fi
+username="$1"
+password=`</dev/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | head -c10`
+echo "$username:$password" | /usr/sbin/chpasswd
+echo "ALTER USER '$username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '$password';" | mysql -u root
+echo "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;" | mysql -u root
+echo "Bytade lösenord. De nya inloggningsuppgifterna är:"
+echo "Username: $username"
+echo "Password: $password"
+exit 1