QtPass password generator vs pass password generator vs pwgen

[christian-weiss]

At the moment there are three password generators available in the pass / qtpass ecosystem:

• pwgen (external tool)
• build-in one (when pwgen is not selected)
• pass one ("pass generate ...", but there is currently no option to select this as password generator)

As QtPass calls itself a GUI for pass, and due to that fact it should use the password generator of pass by default if config / programs is set to "use pass".

Options in config / settings (first tab) that are only supported by the build-in generator should be grayed out in that case. Values from the remaining settings should be used to initialize environment variables:

• PASSWORD_STORE_GENERATED_LENGTH
• PASSWORD_STORE_CHARACTER_SET
• PASSWORD_STORE_CHARACTER_SET_NO_SYMBOLS
• PASSWORD_STORE_CLIP_TIME
  o let pass password generator consider them.

If someone do not want to use pass for password generator there should be an option on config / settings to change it to another generator from above list (dropdown input field).

I personally prefer to have always the same behavoir irrelevant if i use the command line tool pass or a GUI for it.

[christian-weiss]

BTW: When using QtPass on windows there is no port of pwgen (windows binary) available.
At lease i could not fine one.
As far i i know https://sourceforge.net/projects/pwgen-win is a completly separate project - naming is misleading here. Original: https://github.com/tytso/pwgen/releases

That renders windows users to have only one option at the moment: the QtPass build-in password generator.

[annejan]

I personally prefer to have always the same behavoir irrelevant if i use the command line tool pass or a GUI for it.

Completely agree . .