Package: debian-handbook Version: 10.20200619 Severity: normal Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: alx.manpa...@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer, In Chapter 4, Installation, page 60, there's a note suggesting the use of password generators, and it suggests pwgen (as an example). IMO, much better suggestions would be: - makepasswd(1): This one is much safer. In fact there is a bug report where pwgen(1) is suggested to be replaced by a wrapper script around makepasswd(1). It can also generate arbitrarily large passwords very easily (I for example like 64-byte passwords, so I use `makepasswd --chars 64`). This one is great for passwords to be stored in password managers. - goxkcdpwgen(1): This one is great for boot passwords (and also for the password of the pasword manager itself), since you need to remember it. Thanks, Alex -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled -- no debconf information