Why not let the administrator decide?
Why not let the administrator decide?
Posted Aug 11, 2026 21:08 UTC (Tue) by alx.manpages (subscriber, #145117)In reply to: Why not let the administrator decide? by mb
Parent article: Changes in shadow-utils password-expiration features
If the generator generates long xkcd-936 style passwords then: Yes. Is there a generator with a big enough word database that can do this?
There is. :)
$ whatis xkcdpass
xkcdpass (1) - generate memorable, secure multiword passphrases
https://manpages.debian.org/buster/xkcdpass/xkcdpass.1.en.html
I have no idea how to do that easily, though.
We can have a mention in the manual page of passwd(1). It isn't great, but that's as much as I can do.