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2.1 gnu-pw-mgr help/usage (‘--help’)

This is the automatically generated usage text for gnu-pw-mgr.

The text printed is the same whether selected with the help option (‘--help’) or the more-help option (‘--more-help’). more-help will print the usage text by passing it through a pager program. more-help is disabled on platforms without a working fork(2) function. The PAGER environment variable is used to select the program, defaulting to ‘more’. Both will exit with a status code of 0.

 
gnu-pw-mgr - derive a password from an id - Ver. 1.6
Usage:  gnu-pw-mgr [ -<flag> [<val>] | --<name>[{=| }<val>] ]... [ <pw-id> ]

Options for adding and removing seeds in the configuration file.:

  Flg Arg Option-Name    Description
   -t Str tag            seed tag
                                - prohibits these options:
                                login-id
                                cclass
                                length
                                specials
                                no-header
                                use-pbkdf2
                                - may not be preset
   -s Str text           seed text
                                - requires the option 'tag'
                                - may not be preset

Options for specifying password attributes.:

  Flg Arg Option-Name    Description
   -i Str login-id       a reminder of your login id
                                - may not be preset
   -l Num length         sets password length
                                - it must be in the range:
                                  4 to 128
                                - may not be preset
   -c Mbr cclass         password character class
                                - may not be preset
                                - is a set membership option
      Num use-pbkdf2     compute password with PKCS#5 PBKDF2
                                - disabled as '--no-pbkdf2'
                                - enabled by default
                                - may not be preset
      Str specials       set alternate special characters
                                - may not be preset
      Str select-chars   select only certain bytes of a password

Options for management and output format.:

  Flg Arg Option-Name    Description
   -H no  no-header      omit printing the password headers
                                - may not be preset
   -C Str confirm        print confirmation question answer
                                - may not be preset
   -S no  status         Show status of a password id
                                - may not be preset
   -d no  delete         Remove a password entry
                                - may not be preset

Options supported by the AutoOpts option library.:

  Flg Arg Option-Name    Description
   -v opt version        output version information and exit
   -h no  help           display extended usage information and exit
   -M no  more-help      extended usage information passed thru pager
      Str load-opts      load options from a config file
                                - disabled as '--no-load-opts'
                                - may appear multiple times

Options are specified by doubled hyphens and their name or by a single
hyphen and the flag character.

The valid "cclass" option keywords are:
  alpha       upper       lower       digit       special     no-special
  no-alpha    no-triplets pin         alnum       two-upper   two-lower
  two-digit   two-special
  or an integer mask with any of the lower 14 bits set
or you may use a numeric representation.  Preceding these with a '!'
will clear the bits, specifying 'none' will clear all bits, and 'all'
will set them all.  Multiple entries may be passed as an option
argument list.
The password id should contain a fairly consistent permutation of the URL
you are logging in to.  "Fairly" because you may wish to vary your
financial institutions differently than your newspaper.  e.g.  "my/banK$moC"
versus "bLog-oRg".  And then surround the id with prefixes and suffixes.
Separate these with punctuation characters to make dictionary attacks more
difficult.

Only the passwords for one password id are ever printed.  If the command
line contains multiple operands (arguments after the options), then they
are assembled into one password id with space characters separating the
original operands.

One password is printed for every configured seed value.  Seed values are
added by specifying just the '--tag' and '--text' options.  The tag is also
printed with each password.  The '--login-id', '--length', '--cclass' and
'--specials' options are associated with each password id.  Password ids
are never stored anywhere.

Please send bug reports to:  <bkorb@gnu.org>

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