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PWMAKE(1)                                      General Commands Manual                                      PWMAKE(1)



NAME
       pwmake - simple tool for generating random relatively easily pronounceable passwords

SYNOPSIS
       pwmake <entropy-bits>

DESCRIPTION
       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 depend‐
       ing on your level of paranoia.


OPTIONS
       The first and only argument is the number of bits of entropy used to generate the password.


FILES
       /etc/security/pwquality.conf - The configuration file for the libpwquality library.


RETURN CODES
       pwmake returns 0 on success, non zero on error.


SEE ALSO
       pwscore(1), pam_pwquality(8)


AUTHORS
       Tomas Mraz <[email protected]>



Red Hat, Inc.                                        10 Nov 2011                                            PWMAKE(1)