spwgen1

Usage

Overview

pwgen generates random, meaningless but pronounceable passwords. Depending on how the program was installed, these words contain either only lowercase letters, or upper and lower case mixed, or digits thrown in. Uppercase letters and digits are placed in a way that eases remembering their position when memorizing only the word.

spwgen generates totaly random, meaningless and unlikely pronounceable passwords. Prefer spwgen to pwgen if you want a "secure" password.

pwgen does not interact with the system's password handling. All it does is print out one or more passwords that can subsequently be used as input for passwd (1) or for similar applications.

Parameters

length

(number from 4 to 16) specifies the maximum password length. This parameter is required.

count

specifies how many passwords to produce. Defaults to one.