debian man page for pwqgen

PWQGEN(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 PWQGEN(1)

NAME
     pwqgen -- Generate quality controllable random passphrase

SYNOPSIS
     pwqgen [options]

DESCRIPTION
     The pwqgen program generates a random passphrase using the libpasswdqc library.  Strength of the generated passphrase depends on the amount
     of randomness read from /dev/urandom.

OPTIONS
     random=N
	     (default: random=47) The size of randomly-generated passphrase in bits (26 to 81).

     config=FILE
	     Load config FILE in the passwdqc.conf format.  This file may define any options described in passwdqc.conf(5), but only the random
	     and config options are honored by pwqgen.

     --version
	     Output pwqgen program version and exit.

     -h, --help
	     Output pwqgen help text and exit.

EXIT STATUS
     pwqgen exits with non-zero status when it encounters invalid config file, invalid option, invalid parameter value, when it fails to obtain
     enough randomness, and in any case when it fails to generate a passphrase.

FILES
     /etc/passwdqc.conf.

SEE ALSO
     pwqcheck(1), urandom(4), passwdqc.conf(5), pam_passwdqc(8).

     http://www.openwall.com/passwdqc/

AUTHORS
     The pam_passwdqc module was written for Openwall GNU/*/Linux by Solar Designer.  The pwqgen program was originally written for ALT
     GNU/*/Linux by Dmitry V. Levin, indirectly reusing code from pam_passwdqc (via libpasswdqc).  This manual page was written for Openwall
     GNU/*/Linux by Dmitry V. Levin.

Openwall Project						  March 13, 2010						  Openwall Project