Re: Some important orphaned packages
On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 02:39:13PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
>
> Package: makepasswd
> Description: Generate and encrypt passwords
> Generates true random passwords by using the /dev/random feature of
> Linux, with the emphasis on security over pronounceability.
% man pwgen
...
-s, --secure
Generate completely random, hard-to-memorize paswords. These
should only be used for machine passwords, since otherwise it's
almost guaranteed that users will simply write the password on a
piece of paper taped to the monitor...
Required disclosure: I'm the upstream author/maintainer of pwgen v2
(which I rewrote just before woody shipped because of the uncertain
liscening issues surrounding the original version of pwgen).
- Ted
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