On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 10:40 PM, Allan Odgaard
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 21 Jun 2020, at 4:07, Nils Andre wrote:
Also `apg` already provides this functionality […]
On BSD/macOS there is also `pwgen`, so agree, the proposed
functionality does not belong as a separate command in `pass`.
It would make more sense to remove password generation from `pass`,
although with multiple commands for this, the overhead on
standardizing the interface (to set password length, the inclusion or
exclusion of certain symbols) would not be worth it, as `pass`
currently just read n bytes from /dev/urandom (filtering out
undesired characters).
The advantage of outsourcing password generation could be support for
a “quirks” database¹ but that would require extracting the web
site for which the password is being generated, and although many put
this in the password path, there is no strict convention.
¹
https://github.com/apple/password-manager-resources/blob/main/quirks/password-rules.json
Adding support for external password generation sounds great, but that
should be a separate patch. It's orthoginal to OP's request: getting
the insert and generate commands to share command line options.
jf
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