I am the well known password generator pwgen. You can read more about me on my manual page.
Philipp took my sources from the sourceforge project site and republished me as a Git repository here on GibHub.
To get there, he downloaded the .tar.gz packages from the download section of the project on sf.net.
A git cvsimport was not possible as newer versions were not checked-in to CVS on SF.net.
To automatically create the repository, he used the following Bash Script:
#!/bin/bash
for version in 2.0 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06
do
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/pwgen/files/pwgen/$version/pwgen-$version.tar.gz/download
done
mkdir pwgen
cd pwgen
git init
cd ..
for archive in $(ls pwgen*tar.gz)
do
tar -xf $archive
cd pwgen; git rm -rf *; cd ..
archive_dir=$(basename $archive .tar.gz)
mv $archive_dir/* pwgen/
cd pwgen; git add .; git commit -m "automatic commit for $archive_dir"; cd ..
rm -rf $archive_dir
done
For an overview over the current status on Debian & Ubuntu have a look at the Debian package tracking system (including information about bugs etc): http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pwgen.html. Also helpful: Ubuntu's Bugtracker for pwgen.
- Theodore Ts'o tytso@alum.mit.edu
Modelled after a program originally written by Brandon S. Allbery, and then later extensively modified by Olaf Titz, Jim Lynch, and others.
- For MS Windows there is PWGen for Windows.
- There is a port to PHP: pwgen-php
- and to Javascript: http://8-p.info/pwgen/.
- An alternative with easier to remember passwords: gpw which is a Trigraph Password Generator written in Java (also available in C/C++ and Javascript)
- Here is a discussion of tools for the generaton of memorable passwords.