Empty password on mac os

[nsmathew]

Cluster: ShARC
Client OS: Mac OS Ventura 13.1 (Intel)

The script to start the remote vscode server, start_vscode_sharc.sh does not generate the password on Mac OS. I used a slightly different command as below to get it working.

Original command(line 325)
VSCPASS=$(strings /dev/urandom | grep -o '[[:alnum:]]' | head -n 30 | tr -d '\n'; echo)

Updated Command
VSCPASS=$(cat /dev/urandom | LC_ALL=C tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 30 | head -n 1)

Command referenced from https://www.markusdosch.com/2022/05/generating-a-random-string-on-linux-macos/

strings /dev/urandom does not print any output for me while cat /dev/urandom does.