[PATCH] stop using pwgen

[Brian Candler]

On 18/12/2016 14:02, ilf wrote:
> I also proposed a method to do this without base64:
>
> ilf:
>> Here's a simple way to generate passwords from /dev/random directly 
>> in shell:
>> tr -dc "[:graph:]" < /dev/urandom | head -c 32 

As I said at the time, that's terrible because it will consume 4KB or 
8KB of data from urandom for every password you generate, most likely 
depleting the entropy pool completely.

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