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| author | Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> | 2016-02-05 21:28:26 +0100 |
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| committer | Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> | 2016-02-05 21:28:26 +0100 |
| commit | 9715ddcd2b2a3f3ed0f27398048191ac2de60c8b (patch) | |
| tree | 2aa298e3d099e434d4a87ee6cd47bd50533ef463 /man | |
| parent | 3220fd7dec896a6ccdc16e857c102237209107ea (diff) | |
generate: have a default length of 25
Folks are lazy and don't want to type very much, so they'd like to have
a default password length to generate that can be configured via
environment variables per usual. I'm making the default 25.
If the user forbids the use of symbols, pwgen will use a-zA-Z0-9,
ensuring that at least one A-Z and at least one 0-9 is used. We want to
have a password of at least 128-bits, so factoring in the issue with "at
least one of this character type", 25 gets us there squarely.
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/pass.1 | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -111,10 +111,11 @@ ensure that temporary files are created in \fI/dev/shm\fP in order to avoid writ difficult-to-erase disk sectors. If \fI/dev/shm\fP is not accessible, fallback to 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 +\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 and insert into \fIpass-name\fP. If \fI--no-symbols\fP or \fI-n\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. If \fI--clip\fP or \fI-c\fP is specified, do not print the password but instead copy it to the clipboard using @@ -415,6 +416,10 @@ Specifies the number of seconds to wait before restoring the clipboard, by defau .I PASSWORD_STORE_UMASK Sets the umask of all files modified by pass, by default \fI077\fP. .TP +.I PASSWORD_STORE_GENERATED_LENGTH +The default password length if the \fIpass-length\fP parameter to \fBgenerate\fP +is unspecified. +.TP .I EDITOR The location of the text editor used by \fBedit\fP. .SH SEE ALSO |