RedisAUTH Generator

This tool was written primarily to automatically generate a secure RedisAUTH token for use with Amazon Elasticache, which requires a minimum of 16 ASCII characters.

The generator is set to 18 characters by default.

Instructions

Root permissions are not required, so using sudo is not recommended.

1. Clone this repositpory: git clone https://github.com/cloudfrl-com/RedisAUTH.git
2. Move into the directory cd RedisAuth
3. Make the file containing the script executable: chmod +x RedisAUTH.sh
4. Run the script: sh RedisAUTH.sh
5. The generated AUTH token is printed in the terminal.