From owner-freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 27 15:50:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20D2016A41F for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:50:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5DC243D45 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:50:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7RFoKpc081298 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:50:20 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j7RFoKUi081297; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:50:20 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:50:20 GMT Message-Id: <200508271550.j7RFoKUi081297@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Andrew Khlebutin Cc: Subject: ports/85349: New port: sysutils/pwgen2. A small, powerful, GPL'ed password generator X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Andrew Khlebutin List-Id: Ports bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:50:21 -0000 The following reply was made to PR ports/85349; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Andrew Khlebutin To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: ports/85349: New port: sysutils/pwgen2. A small, powerful, GPL'ed password generator Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 21:44:24 +0600 As far as I understood, these ports have the same roots. It only matters that sysutils/pwgen hasn't been updated for around six years. pwgen from sf.net is updated periodically, also it contains a good configure script which doesn't even needs to be patched. Changelog shows the bugs are being fixed and it has more features. e.g.: -y, --symbols Include at least one special character in the password. -B, --ambiguous Don't use characters that could be confused by the user when printed, such as 'l' and '1', or '0' or 'O'. This reduces the number of possible passwords signficantly, and as such reduces the quality of the passwords. It may be useful for users who have bad vision, but in general use of this option is not recom- mended. -H, --sha1=/path/to/file[#seed] Will use the sha1's hash of given file and the optional seed to create password. It will allow you to compute the same password later, if you remember the file, seed, and pwgen's options used. ie: pwgen -H ~/your_favourite.mp3#your@email.com gives a list of possibles passwords for your pop3 account, and you can ask this list again and again. That is what author thinks about that: This version of pwgen was written by Theodore Ts'o . It is modelled after a program originally writ- ten by Brandon S. Allbery, and then later extensively modified by Olaf Titz, Jim Lynch, and others. It was rewritten from scratch by Theodore Ts'o because the original program was somewhat of a hack, and thus hard to maintain, and because the licensing status of the program was unclear. Taking all of that into consideration I cannot understand why the ports contain that prehistoric version of pwgen, but not a recent sf.net's one.