Package: xkcdpass
Version: 1.19.9+dfsg1-1
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
I was testing a new wordlist composed entirely of 4 chacter words
and kept getting the following error message:
Error: provided arguments result in zero-length wordlist, exiting.
In the process of examining this I realised that the man page was
incorrect.
It reads:
--min MIN_LENGTH
Generate passphrases containing at least MIN_LENGTH words. (Default:
5)
--max MAX_LENGTH
Generate passphrases containing at most MAX_LENGTH words. (Default: 9)
implying that these options control words per passphrase (similar to -n).
However the -h option to xkcdpass correctly documents that they actually
control letters per word:
usage: xkcdpass [-h] [-w WORDFILE] [--min MIN_LENGTH] [--max MAX_LENGTH] [-n
NUM_WORDS | -a ACROSTIC] [-i] [-v VALID_CHARS] [-V] [-c COUNT] [-d DELIM] [-R]
[-D VALID_DELIMITERS] [-s SEP] [-C CASE]
[--allow-weak-rng]
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-w, --wordfile WORDFILE
Specify that the file WORDFILE contains the list of
valid words from which to generate passphrases. Multiple wordfiles can be
provided, separated by commas. Provided wordfiles: eff-long
(default), eff-short, eff-special, legacy, spa-mich
(Spanish), fin-kotus (Finnish), fr-freelang (French), fr-corrected.txt
(French), pt-ipublicis (Portuguese), ger-anlx (German),
eff_large_de_sample.wordlist (German), nor-nb
(Norwegian)
--min MIN_LENGTH Generate passphrases containing words with at least
MIN_LENGTH characters.
--max MAX_LENGTH Generate passphrases containing words with at most
MAX_LENGTH characters.
-n, --numwords NUM_WORDS
Generate passphrases containing exactly NUM_WORDS words.
-a, --acrostic ACROSTIC
Generate passphrases with an acrostic matching ACROSTIC.
-i, --interactive Generate and output a passphrase, query the user to
accept it, and loop until one is accepted.
-v, --valid-chars VALID_CHARS
Limit passphrases to only include words matching the
regex pattern VALID_CHARS (e.g. '[a-z]').
-V, --verbose Report various metrics for given options.
-c, --count COUNT Generate COUNT passphrases.
-d, --delimiter DELIM
Separate words within a passphrase with DELIM.
-R, --random-delimiters
Use randomized delimiters between words. --delimiter
will be ignored
-D, --valid-delimiters VALID_DELIMITERS
A string with all valid delimiter characters. For
example, '^&*' would use ^, &, or *
-s, --separator SEP Separate generated passphrases with SEP.
-C, --case CASE Choose the method for setting the case of each word in
the passphrase. Choices: ['as-is', 'lower', 'upper', 'first', 'capitalize',
'alternating', 'random'] (default: 'lower').
--allow-weak-rng Allow fallback to weak RNG if the system does not
support cryptographically secure RNG. Only use this if you know what you are
doing.
The default --min value of 5 meant that none of the words in my list of
four letter words were usable.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.63+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages xkcdpass depends on:
ii python3 3.13.5-1
ii python3-pkg-resources 78.1.1-0.1
xkcdpass recommends no packages.
xkcdpass suggests no packages.
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