Intent to package: makepasswd
This is a password generation/encryption utility needed in particular
by ircd, but which could have a variety of applications.
Planned dist is main/utils.
new debian package, version 2.0.
size 7678 bytes: control archive= 597 bytes.
376 bytes, 10 lines control
319 bytes, 5 lines md5sums
Package: makepasswd
Version: 1.06-1
Architecture: all
Depends: perl
Installed-Size: 28
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
Description: Generate and encrypt passwords
Generates true random passwords by using the /dev/random feature of
Linux, with the emphasis on security over pronounceability. It can
also encrypt plaintext passwords given on the command line.
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1997-11-17 05:13 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1997-11-17 05:13 usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1997-11-17 05:13 usr/bin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 12925 1997-11-17 05:13 usr/bin/makepasswd
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1997-11-17 05:13 usr/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1997-11-17 05:13 usr/doc/makepasswd/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 684 1997-11-09 04:53 usr/doc/makepasswd/copyright
-rw-r--r-- root/root 224 1997-11-09 04:42 usr/doc/makepasswd/changelog.Debian
-rw-r--r-- root/root 207 1997-11-17 05:13 usr/doc/makepasswd/buildinfo.Debian
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1997-11-17 05:13 usr/man/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1997-11-17 05:13 usr/man/man1/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 1636 1997-11-09 05:31 usr/man/man1/makepasswd.1.gz
NAME
makepasswd - generate and/or encrypt passwords
SYNOPSIS
makepasswd [ --chars N ] [ --clear pass ] [ --count N ] [
--crypt | --nocrypt ] [ --cryptsalt N ] [ --help ] [
--maxchars N ] [ --minchars N ] [ --randomseed N ] [
--rerandom N ] [ --repeatpass N ] [ --string string ] [
--verbose | --noverbose ]
...
HISTORY
makepasswd was originally part of the mkircconf program
used to centrally administer the Linux Internet Support
Cooperative IRC network. It is useful in situations where
passwords must be secure and need not be memorized by
humans, or where a quick plaintext->ciphertext password
translation is needed.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1997 by lilo <lilo@linpeople.org>. All
rights are reserved by the author. This program may be
used under the terms of version 2 of the GNU Public
License.
SEE ALSO
passwd(5)
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