Merge pull request #263 from alphagov/shorter-tokens

Generate shorter tokens
alphagov · Apr 10, 2014 · b352a8d · b352a8d
2 parents 673a177 + 1fa2396
commit b352a8d
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diff --git a/tools/generate-token.sh b/tools/generate-token.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 #
-# Generate a random token 
+# Generate a random token
 #
 
-head -c 500 /dev/urandom | shasum -a 512
+# LC_CTYPE=C is specified for OS X, as otherwise tr will return
+# an illegal byte sequence from assuming /dev/urandom is UTF-8
+
+cat /dev/urandom | LC_CTYPE=C tr -cd 'a-zA-Z0-9' | head -c 64
+
+echo '' # Add a newline