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

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 09:46:34AM -0700, Ted Cabeen wrote:
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> > I suppose makepasswd isn't a major feature improvement over the
> > combination of pwgen and mkpasswd, so if somebody wanted to remove it I
> > wouldn't object too strongly. I don't think it's entirely redundant,
> > though.
> 
> Its not entirely redundant.  I like it because it has the most option
> of any of the usual programs that people use, and because it's written
> in perl, so it's easy to transfer to other systems and platforms.  I
> often forget which of pwgen and mkpasswd has the option I want, so
> I'll just use makepasswd for simplicity.  
> 
> BTW: Colin, if you decide that you don't want to adopt this one, I'd
>      be happy to take it as well.  I use it quite a bit and it looked
>      like a nice simple package to have as my first debian package.

I have plenty of packages, so I see no reason to stand in the way of a
new maintainer, provided you fix its bugs and maintain it well. :)
Sounds like you use it more than me anyway. Send me a diff and I'll have
a look; my current version has fixes for #50885, #147808, #168492, and
#190485.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]