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Options for management and output format..
This is the “omit printing the password headers” option.
This option has some usage constraints. It:
By default, the output includes column headers.
For confirmation output, the two values will have column labels,
and for password output, it will contain any login hint and the
date the last time the --rehash count was changed.
(Password was changed.)
Suppressing it is intended for automated logins.
The login name hint will not be provided, but the
tag is printed.
This is the “select only certain bytes of a password” option. This option takes a string argument.
This option has some usage constraints. It:
There exists at least one web site that asks you to enter just some of the password characters, like the second, tenth and sixteenth. With long, memorable resistant passwords, this can be difficult to do. For such web sites, provide this option with the string "2,10,16" as the option argument. The characters to select are space or comma separated values. The result cannot be longer than the original password.
This is the “confirmation question answers (see man page)” option. This option takes a string argument.
This option has some usage constraints. It:
Some web sites use "confirmation questions" that, supposedly, only you know the answer to. Unfortunately, these are often times questions that can be researched by others or they can be questions that you have forgotten the answers to or may have multiple answers for. The net result is that you are locked out. This option makes it easy to get consistent answers to these questions and have these answers be different for every web site, just like your password.
Providing this option will cause the argument to be merged into the hash source (changing the resulting password). Exactly 12 letters will be extracted from the hash and converted to lower case. The string argument to this option should be the last word or two from the question, yielding an easy-to-remember way of obtaining a consistent answer to these inscrutable questions.
You will need to update your confirmation question answers when you update your password seed. However, since that can be highly inconvenient also, this option will print *TWO* results. The first will be dependent on the current password hash, the second will depend *only* on the confirmation question and password id. Consequently, the second one will be stable going forward. The first answer is now deprecated.
This is the “show status of a password id” option.
This option has some usage constraints. It:
Show all the modified password attributes for a password id. If there are no special attributes, the word "default" is printed. No password id is invalid, but some may have all default values, consequently there is no special information kept about it.
Command line options will affect the output, but will not be stored for future use.
This is the “remove a password id entry” option.
This option has some usage constraints. It:
This will print out the attributes associated with a particular password id and remove them from the configuration file.
This is the “a reminder of domains used for password id” option. This option takes a string argument ‘DOMAIN’.
This option has some usage constraints. It:
If you create a lot of passwords, it is easy to forget which domains have an associated password. You do not want to specify a password id, merely note the domains for which you have a password id. With well over 100 passwords, I found I need to be able to know which need to be updated occasionally. This option will cause a separate text database to be updated with a domain name and an update date. With a single hyphen as the option argument, that database will be printed out in chronological order.
This is the “specify configuration file” option. This option takes a string argument ‘CONFIG-FILE’.
This option has some usage constraints. It:
If you need an alternate location for storing your password seed files, use this option. It must be specified on the command line every time it is needed. You are responsible to ensure that the directory already exists. The file will be left read-only when gnu-pw-mgr exits. The containing directory permissions will not be checked or altered.
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