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Automatic Password generation
See the example below ``` $ pwgen -n 2 1 Rh $ brew info pwgen|head -n 1 pwgen: stable 2.08 (bottled) ```
Hi, I got annoyed by the need to include at least one symbol character in passwords but didn't want to use just any symbol but specifically `_` because it gets...
pw_random_number(max_num) simply performs a modulo of a random integer against the number of elements in the character array. Since there is no check whether the maximum integer value is divisible...
There is no mention on this project's former homepage, https://sourceforge.net/projects/pwgen/, that the project has moved here to GitHub. Please add such indication there.
As the development of haveged, the amount of seed in /dev/random has increased a lot. As a result, it can improve the security of password when use /dev/random as random...
This option will be useful for generating PIN-codes.
Backslashes are historically hard to handle, and if you have several layers that de-escape, you might need to express them with powers-of-two amounts of backslashes.
Examples include `:` and `;`, `,` and `.`, backtick and `'`, etc.
According to the [password table](https://www.hivesystems.io/password) published by hive systems, even the most secure 8 character passwords generated by this tool are now crackable within 5 minutes. The link above explains...
These warnings were generated from -Wstrict-prototypes and -Wdeprecated-non-prototype