On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 12:27:25PM +0200, Ondrej Sury wrote: > 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. > > Description: Automatic Password generation > pwgen generates random, meaningless but pronounceable passwords. 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. That would be the opposite. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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