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Bug#192660: O: makepasswd -- Generate and encrypt passwords



On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 11:08:49PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 07:57:38AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> > > I'd initially missed the option to pwgen that allows you to pick the
> > > length of the generated passwords, though, which would've been a serious
> > > lack. pwgen tries to generate pronounceable passwords by default
> > > (there's a --secure flag to disable this), which isn't available in
> > > makepasswd.
> > 
> > I thought --chars did exactly that?
> 
> Did exactly which, sorry? I don't understand that.

I was referring to the length of the password.  I now see that you
actually knew it after all :)
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