debian man page for pwqgen

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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
Related Man Pages
pam-config(8) - suse
random(4) - mojave
random(7d) - opensolaris
pwqgen(1) - debian
passwdqc.conf(5) - debian
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Distribution Release: Openwall GNU/*/Linux 3.0