Bug 68985 - RFE: Please bring back "mimencode"
Summary: RFE: Please bring back "mimencode"
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: metamail
Version: limbo
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-16 18:57 UTC by Peter van Egdom
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-07-16 18:57:49 UTC
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Description Peter van Egdom 2002-07-16 18:57:44 UTC
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Description of problem:
I know "mimencode" is part of the deprecated package "metamail" but I'm using
a password generating script for random password generation on one of the
Red Hat Linux machines I administrate.

(
In those password scripts, I use the trick "head -c 6 /dev/urandom |mimencode"
to fetch a nice series of random characters, but without a tool like mimencode
I cannot do this.
)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. "head -c 6 /dev/urandom |mimencode"
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  bash: mimencode: command not found

Expected Results:  I expect some nice random characters to appear. :-)

Additional info:

Comment 1 Peter van Egdom 2002-10-28 21:17:36 UTC
Closing this 'bug'; it never really was a bug.


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