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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">One might also use something like…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri"> gpg --armor --gen-random 1 20<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">(depending on your install, the command might be gpg2).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Since pass uses gpg under the hood, this is likely to be installed already.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">But, beware this warning from the man page: "don't use this command unless you know what you are doing; it may remove precious entropy from the system!"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">From: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Password-Store <password-store-bounces@lists.zx2c4.com> on behalf of Alan Orth <alan.orth@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 8:54 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Till Schäfer <till2.schaefer@tu-dortmund.de></span><span style="font-family:PMingLiU;color:black"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Cc: </span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">"password-store@lists.zx2c4.com" <password-store@lists.zx2c4.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: Generate password and print to stdout?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yeah, I've got a shell function that does something with /dev/urandom as well. I guess I was just trying to clean up my shell's config a bit but I'll just keep using that function. Here's mine:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="inbox-inbox-s1">< </span><span class="inbox-inbox-s2">/dev/</span><span class="inbox-inbox-s3">u</span><span class="inbox-inbox-s2">random tr -dc
</span><span class="inbox-inbox-s4">'A-Za-z0-9!"#$%&'</span><span class="inbox-inbox-s5">\'</span><span class="inbox-inbox-s4">'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~'</span><span class="inbox-inbox-s2">
</span><span class="inbox-inbox-s1">|</span><span class="inbox-inbox-s2"> head -c 2</span><span class="inbox-inbox-s4">5</span><span class="inbox-inbox-s2"> ;
</span><span class="inbox-inbox-s1">echo</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">By the way, pass hasn't used pwgen since the release of 1.7 in February, 2017.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 3:00 PM Till Schäfer <<a href="mailto:till2.schaefer@tu-dortmund.de" target="_blank">till2.schaefer@tu-dortmund.de</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<br>
there is a standard unix tool for this purpose: pwgen<br>
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Regards,<br>
Till<br>
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On Dienstag, 14. November 2017 13:51:26 CET b3yond wrote:<br>
> pass can't do this, as it can't use files as output which are outside<br>
> .password-store.<br>
><br>
> you can use this command instead for a 32 length alphanumeric passphrase:<br>
><br>
> cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1<br>
><br>
> I hope this helps :)<br>
><br>
> b3yond<br>
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><br>
> On 14.11.2017 13:21, Alan Orth wrote:<br>
> > Hello,<br>
> ><br>
> > I'm wondering how to make pass print a generated password to stdout.<br>
> > Sometimes I need to generate a password that I don't want or need to<br>
> > store. It would be nice if I could just use pass generate for that.<br>
> > Currently it seems that the "pass-name" argument is mandatory.<br>
> ><br>
> > Thank you,<br>
> ><br>
> > Alan Orth<br>
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