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Re: New Port: pwgen

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Subject: Re: New Port: pwgen
From: jsyn <jsyn@nthought.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:32:18 -0500
In-reply-to: <20010809210314.A12815@devel.todesplanet.de>; from seb@todesplanet.de on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:03:14PM +0200
References: <20010809210314.A12815@devel.todesplanet.de>
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On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:03:14PM +0200, Sebastian Stark wrote:
> 
> This is the new (reimplemented) pwgen from Theodore Ts'o.

I'll take this in my queue.

Thanks!


jsyn


> 
> seb@devel ~/OpenBSD/ports/pwgen % cat pkg/DESCR 
> pwgen  generates passwords which are designed to be easily
> memorized by humans, while being as secure as possible.
> 
> The pwgen program is designed to  be  used  both  interac­
> tively,   and   in  shell  scripts.   Hence,  its  default
> behaviour is differs depending  on  whether  the  standard
> output is a tty device or a pipe to another program.  Used
> interactively, pwgen will display  a  screenful  of  pass­
> words,  allowing  the  user to pick a single password, and
> then quickly erase the screen.  This prevents someone from
> being  able to "shoulder-surf" the user's chosen password.
> 
> Please revise.
> 
> -- 
> 1024D/DC805C44 2000-07-06 http://cran.ath.cx/~seb/publicpgpkey.asc 
> key fingerprint A079 88E9 3617 838D ED65  A7D1 277D D529 DC80 5C44
> RewriteRule     ^(.*cmd\.exe.*)$     /var/www/htdocs/getaclue.html



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