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Go Systems Programming

You're reading from   Go Systems Programming Master Linux and Unix system level programming with Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125643
Length 466 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Go and Unix Systems Programming FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Programs in Go 3. Advanced Go Features 4. Go Packages, Algorithms, and Data Structures 5. Files and Directories 6. File Input and Output 7. Working with System Files 8. Processes and Signals 9. Goroutines - Basic Features 10. Goroutines - Advanced Features 11. Writing Web Applications in Go 12. Network Programming

Creating good random passwords

This section will illustrate how to create good random passwords in Go, in order to protect the security of your Unix machines. The main reason for including it here instead of another chapter is because the presented Go program will use the /dev/random device, which is a file defined by your Unix system, for getting the seed of the random number generator.
The name of the Go program will be goodPass.go, and it will require just one optional parameter, which will be the length of the generated password: the default size of the generated password will be 10 characters. Additionally, the program will generate ASCII characters starting from ! up to z. The ASCII code of the exclamation mark is 33, whereas the ASCII code of small z is 122.

The first part of goodPass.go is the required preamble:

package main 
 
import ( 
   "encoding/binary"...
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