pwmake - simple tool for generating random relatively easily pronounceable
passwords
pwmake <entropy-bits>
pwmake is a simple configurable tool for generating random and relatively
easily pronounceable passwords. The tool allows you to specify the number of
entropy bits that are used to generate the password.
The entropy is pulled from
/dev/urandom.
The minimum number of bits is
56 which is usable for passwords on
systems/services where brute force attacks are of very limited rate of tries.
The
64 bits should be adequate for applications where the attacker does
not have direct access to the password hash file. For situations where the
attacker might obtain the direct access to the password hash or the password
is used as an encryption key
80 to
128 bits should be used
depending on your level of paranoia.
Any
entropy-bits value outside of the
56 to
256 bits range
will be adjusted to fit within the allowed range.
The first and only argument is the number of bits of entropy used to generate
the password.
/etc/security/pwquality.conf - The configuration file for the
libpwquality library.
pwmake returns 0 on success, non zero on error.
pwscore(1),
pam_pwquality(8)
Tomas Mraz <
[email protected]>