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| author | Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> | 2016-12-18 16:13:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> | 2016-12-20 19:31:05 +0100 |
| commit | 639c46a342466209e9b0600c2b3574bb44a0ff31 (patch) | |
| tree | 032a94e458e4d0303be634ba641c20e4a588f07e /man | |
| parent | 0b2f803fe61992af02b8820c400984b1f615a299 (diff) | |
generate: use /dev/urandom directly
Passing to tr using the "pick and discard" technique is more straight-
forwardly correct and less error-prone. It also allows users to
select their own character sets to be passed to tr.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/pass.1 | 26 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -112,11 +112,12 @@ difficult-to-erase disk sectors. If \fI/dev/shm\fP is not accessible, fallback t the ordinary \fITMPDIR\fP location, and print a warning. .TP \fBgenerate\fP [ \fI--no-symbols\fP, \fI-n\fP ] [ \fI--clip\fP, \fI-c\fP ] [ \fI--in-place\fP, \fI-i\fP | \fI--force\fP, \fI-f\fP ] \fIpass-name [pass-length]\fP -Generate a new password using -.BR pwgen (1) -of length \fIpass-length\fP (or \fIPASSWORD_STORE_GENERATED_LENGTH\fP if unspecified) -and insert into \fIpass-name\fP. If \fI--no-symbols\fP or \fI-n\fP -is specified, do not use any non-alphanumeric characters in the generated password. +Generate a new password using \fB/dev/urandom\fP of length \fIpass-length\fP +(or \fIPASSWORD_STORE_GENERATED_LENGTH\fP if unspecified) and insert into +\fIpass-name\fP. If \fI--no-symbols\fP or \fI-n\fP is specified, do not use +any non-alphanumeric characters in the generated password. The character sets used +in generating passwords can be changed with the \fIPASSWORD_STORE_CHARACTER_SET\fP and +\fIPASSWORD_STORE_CHARACTER_SET_NO_SYMBOLS\fP environment variables, described below. If \fI--clip\fP or \fI-c\fP is specified, do not print the password but instead copy it to the clipboard using .BR xclip (1) @@ -420,11 +421,24 @@ Sets the umask of all files modified by pass, by default \fI077\fP. The default password length if the \fIpass-length\fP parameter to \fBgenerate\fP is unspecified. .TP +.I PASSWORD_STORE_CHARACTER_SET +The character set to be used in password generation for \fBgenerate\fP. This value +is to be interpreted by \fBtr\fP. See +.BR tr (1) +for more info. +.TP +.I PASSWORD_STORE_CHARACTER_SET_NO_SYMBOLS +The character set to be used in no-symbol password generation for \fBgenerate\fP, +when \fI--no-symbols\fP, \fI-n\fP is specified. This value is to be interpreted +by \fBtr\fP. See +.BR tr (1) +for more info. +.TP .I EDITOR The location of the text editor used by \fBedit\fP. .SH SEE ALSO .BR gpg2 (1), -.BR pwgen (1), +.BR tr (1), .BR git (1), .BR xclip (1). |