Package: pwgen Version: 2.03-1 Severity: minor Tags: l10n
pwgen lacks an option to generate passwords without vowels. This is important when generating passwords for new users, since vowels allow the possibility for offensive substrings. As an example, the very first time I ran "pwgen -s", one of the entries was "W8qrKIKE". It would be possible to set up a blacklist of rude words, but l10n issues make it impossible to reach any sort of completeness. As part of my job, I set up mailing lists for Free Software community members around the world. In this circumstance, even my own human inspection of the generated password is insufficient. Is the word a slur in Portuguese? In Farsi? In any of the Bantu languages? Allowing the generation of vowelless passwords (as is currently possible with numeralless generation) solves this problem fairly globally. Hints at rude patterns may still appear, but would largely be in the mind of the reader. This ought to be a simple fix. If this gets filed as -ENOPATCH, I will happily try to find time to add the feature. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.4-linode23 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages pwgen depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
