NAME

       gpw - program to generate pronounceable passwords

SYNOPSIS

       gpw [number_of_passwords [length_of_passwords]]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual page documents briefly the gpw command.  This manual page was written for the
       Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       Gpw is a program that generate pronounceable passwords of whatever length is desidered. It
       uses  the  statistics  of  three-letter  combinations  (trigraphs)  of  the english system
       dictionary. It is based on the ideas in Morrie Gasser's password  generator  for  Multics,
       and Dan Edwards's generator for CTSS.  FIPS Standard 181 describes a similar digraph-based
       generator, derived from Gasser's.

OPTIONS

       This program accepts two optional numbers as command-line arguments.  The first  value  is
       the  number  of  password  to  generate,  the  second  one  is the length of the passwords
       required, up to 99.  Defaults are 10 and 8 respectively.

NOTE

       Password length should be choosen consistently with the encryption standard used.
       So, a value of eight is useful with DES encryption, and a longer value should be used with
       MD5 encryption.

SEE ALSO

       passwd(1),pwgen(1).

AUTHOR

       This program has been written by Tom Van Vleck <thvv@multicians.org> in 1994.

CREDITS

       Based  on  the  ideas in Morrie Gasser's password generator for Multics, and Dan Edwards's
       generator for CTSS.  FIPS  Standard  181  describes  a  similar  digraph-based  generator,
       derived from Gasser's.
       This  manual  page  was  written  by  Francesco P. Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>, for the
       Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used  by  others),  who  also  modified  and  packaged
       sources to port it under GNU/Linux.

                                           Aug 24, 2001                                    GPW(1)