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PWQGEN (1) General Commands Manual PWQGEN (1)

NAME

pwqgen — Generate quality controllable random passphrase

SYNOPSIS

pwqgen [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

The pwqgen program generates a random passphrase using the libpasswdqc library. Strength of the generated passphrase depends on the amount of randomness read from /dev/urandom .

OPTIONS
random = N

(default: random =47) The size of randomly-generated passphrase in bits (24 to 136).

config = FILE

Load config FILE in the passwdqc.conf format. This file may define any options described in passwdqc.conf (5), but only the random and config options are honored by pwqgen .

--version

Output pwqgen program version and exit.

-h , --help

Output pwqgen help text and exit.

EXIT STATUS

pwqgen exits with non-zero status when it encounters invalid config file, invalid option, invalid parameter value, when it fails to obtain enough randomness, and in any case when it fails to generate a passphrase.

FILES

/etc/passwdqc.conf (not read unless this suggested file location is specified with the config=/etc/passwdqc.conf option).

SEE ALSO

pwqcheck (1), libpasswdqc (3), urandom (4), passwdqc.conf (5), pam_passwdqc (8).

https://www.openwall.com/passwdqc/

AUTHORS

The pam_passwdqc module was written for Openwall GNU/*/Linux by Solar Designer. The pwqgen program was originally written for ALT GNU/*/Linux by Dmitry V. Levin, indirectly reusing code from pam_passwdqc (via libpasswdqc). This manual page was written for Openwall GNU/*/Linux by Dmitry V. Levin. Openwall Project March 10, 2021 PWQGEN (1)