Re: Some important orphaned packages
Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> writes:
> On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 11:15:30AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>> On May 10, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:
>>
>> > #192660: O: makepasswd -- Generate and encrypt passwords
>> What does this package do that mkpasswd (from the whois package) cannot
>> do?
>
> AFAIR mkpasswd only encrypts passwords while makepasswd also
> generates them.
apt-cache show pwgen
Package: pwgen
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 29
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.03-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1)
Filename: pool/main/p/pwgen/pwgen_2.03-1_i386.deb
Size: 9190
MD5sum: 25dea73d1f2649e01db7d9ec72bfcb29
Description: Automatic Password generation
pwgen generates random, meaningless but pronounceable passwords.
These passwords contain either only lowercase letters, or upper
and lower case mixed, or digits thrown in.
Uppercase letters and digits are placed in a way that eases
remembering their position when memorizing only the word.
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