From 1113bd4b45677ac0140a69cf789ec26c462297b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Galloway <david.galloway@ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:49:10 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] tools: cobbler-access password gen update

- Work on Mac
- Make a letter/number the first character

Signed-off-by: David Galloway <david.galloway@ibm.com>
---
 tools/cobbler-access.sh | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/cobbler-access.sh b/tools/cobbler-access.sh
index da48ebe5..d01e0439 100755
--- a/tools/cobbler-access.sh
+++ b/tools/cobbler-access.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@
 tmpfile=$(mktemp)
 
 # Basically `mkpasswd` but uses a small subset of special characters
-password=$(head /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9!@#$%&' | head -c 12 && echo)
+password="$(
+  { head -c 64 /dev/urandom | LC_ALL=C tr -dc '[:alnum:]' | head -c 1;
+    head -c 256 /dev/urandom | LC_ALL=C tr -dc '[:alnum:]!@#$%&-' | head -c 11;
+  } && echo
+)"
 
 if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
   printf "Enter username: "
-- 
2.47.3