[pass] Provide symbol set as command line argument

Lenz Weber mail at lenzw.de
Mon Nov 14 08:12:51 CET 2016


please don't forget the `exotic platforms` that are working right now:
apg is not available using the MSYS2-packet manager on windows.

Am 13.11.2016 um 23:09 schrieb Michael Hoff:
> On 13.11.2016 21:36, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Michael Hoff <mail at michael-hoff.net>
>> wrote:
>>> I don't think that `pwgen` is the suitable application for this.
>> Why? It already supports lots of different options regarding symbols
>> and numbers and whatnot. This seems like just another little flag for
>> it.
> 
> My point is that `apg` already provides all required features and - to
> my understanding - `apg` is also available in all linux distributions.
> Why invest time and effort in `pwgen` instead?
> 
> Of course, it is possible to implement this in `pwgen`, also.
> One has to change the central generator function interface `(char
> *inbuf, int size, int pw_flags)` to also contain a character set for
> symbols (which is consequently no trivial flag) and implement the
> corresponding functionality in the random and the phonem generator.
> 
> 
> 
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