[PATCH] stop using pwgen

Allan Odgaard lists+pass at simplit.com
Sun Dec 18 02:44:32 CET 2016


On 18 Dec 2016, at 6:40, Antoine Beaupré wrote:

>> I like the idea of using /dev/urandom directly, but piping it into
>> base64 is a terrible idea.
>
> […]
> pwgen -ys, half the time, generates a password i can't copy-paste by
> simply double-clicking on it (because of symbols like [>;.]).

I’ve also had minor issues with characters like backslash, apostrophe, 
double-quote, and backtick.

As for BSD’s base64, I am on macOS with the man page for base64 
stating February 8, 2011 (Mac OS X 10.7) and the default is to encode 
input, no required argument.


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