Debian Bug report logs - #649105
pwgen: Please include numeric only password option

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Package: pwgen; Maintainer for pwgen is Theodore Y. Ts'o <[email protected]>; Source for pwgen is src:pwgen (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Bernhard Kuemel <[email protected]>

Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:39:05 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version pwgen/2.06-1

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Package: pwgen
Version: 2.06-1+b1
Severity: wishlist


I need to pick a numeric only password and I would have liked pwgen to
make a random one for me. Humans, IMHO, tend to alternate or equally
distribute high and low and even and odd numbers and avoid multiple/consecutive equal 
characters, so these are easier to guess than random passwords. Please
include an option for numeric only passwords.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pwgen depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-10  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

pwgen recommends no packages.

pwgen suggests no packages.

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