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Re: New Port: pwgen

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Subject: Re: New Port: pwgen
From: "Andrey Smagin" <asmagin@rapidds.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:22:20 -0500
References: <20010809210314.A12815@devel.todesplanet.de>
Sender: owner-ports@openbsd.org
I just tried this port - compiled without problems, but
I could not make the following options to do anything:
--no-numerals, --no-capitalize
        "Don't include a number or capital letter in the password"

'pwgen' and 'pwgen --no-numerals' seem to produce the same results.

And with '-1' pwgen returns only one password - it's not very clear from the
help message, I was expecting a list.
  -1 "Don't print the generated passwords in columns"



----- Original Message -----
From: "Sebastian Stark" <seb@todesplanet.de>
To: <ports@openbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 2:03 PM
Subject: New Port: pwgen


>
> This is the new (reimplemented) pwgen from Theodore Ts'o.
>
> 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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