1PWMAKE(1) General Commands Manual PWMAKE(1)
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6 pwmake - simple tool for generating random relatively easily
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10 pwmake <entropy-bits>
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13 pwmake is a simple configurable tool for generating random and
14 relatively easily pronounceable passwords. The tool allows you to
15 specify the number of entropy bits that are used to generate the
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18 The entropy is pulled from /dev/urandom.
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20 The minimum number of bits is 56 which is usable for passwords on
21 systems/services where brute force attacks are of very limited rate of
22 tries. The 64 bits should be adequate for applications where the
23 attacker does not have direct access to the password hash file. For
24 situations where the attacker might obtain the direct access to the
25 password hash or the password is used as an encryption key 80 to 128
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29 The first and only argument is the number of bits of entropy used to
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33 /etc/security/pwquality.conf - The configuration file for the
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37 pwmake returns 0 on success, non zero on error.
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43 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com>
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47Red Hat, Inc. 2017-02-10 PWMAKE(1)