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Re: New Port: pwgen

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Subject: Re: New Port: pwgen
From: Sebastian Stark <seb@todesplanet.de>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 03:29:41 +0200
In-reply-to: <016b01c12108$9dd9dbc0$1601a8c0@andrey>; from asmagin@rapidds.com on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:22:20PM -0500
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Andrey Smagin wrote:
> 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.

Yes. I also noticed that and as these are not fundamental features I
thought we could simply overlook it for now.

> 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"

-1 doesn't specify "only one password", that's just a (unwanted?)
side effect. In fact, it exactly does what it means: only one column.

Maybe you want to change it?

I appreciate this program is usable but not quite perfect.

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