Title: Port of the week: pwgen

	Title: Port of the week: pwgen
	Author: Solène
	Date: 12 August 2016
	Tags: security portoftheweek
	Description:

	I will talk about security/pwgen for the current port of the
	week. It's a very light executable to generate passwords. But it's not
	just a dumb password generator, it has options to choose what kind of
	password you want.

	Here is a list of options with their flag, you will find a lot more in
	the nice man page of pwgen:

	+ -A : don't use capital letters
	+ -B : don't use characters which could be missread (O/0, I/l/1 ...)
	+ -v : don't use vowels
	+ etc...

	You can also use a seed to generate your "random" password (which
	aren't very random in this case), you may need it for some reason to
	be able to reproduce password you lost for a ftp/http access for
	example.

	Example of pwgen output generating 5 password of 10 characters. Using
	-1 parameter so it will only display one password per line, otherwise
	it display a grid (on column and multiple lines) of passwords.


	$ pwgen -1 10 5
	fohchah9oP
	haNgeik0ee
	meiceeW8ae
	OReejoi5oo
	ohdae2Eisu