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32451	Management command to securely generate a secret key	Jake Howard	nobody	"Django's `startproject` command does generate a secret key for you in a secure way for your newly created Django project. But it's good practice to have a different key for each environment, whether that be development, staging or production. Therefore, there's a need to generate one after a project has been setup, when you're creating a new environment or starting a project from something other than `startproject`. The method used to generate (`get_random_secret_key`) seems to be undocumented, and yet its implementation details are rather important (the fact it's not just `random.choice`).

I recently wrote (https://github.com/RealOrangeOne/django-secret-key-generator) a web app to generate a `SECRET_KEY` in a similarly secure way (more secure than the other ones out there), but it'd be great to have a simple management command to securely generate a key (using the existing `get_random_secret_key` util) so it could be easily set in a project, and thus share the original implementation.

Does this (management command + documenting `get_random_secret_key`) sound like a good idea? I'm happy to submit a patch myself. "	New feature	closed	Core (Management commands)	3.1	Normal	duplicate			Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0