[Freeipa-devel] [freeipa PR#317][comment] Unify password generation across FreeIPA

[stlaz]

  URL: https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/317
Title: #317: Unify password generation across FreeIPA

stlaz commented:
"""
 The passwords should have around the same entropy now. SHA-1 actually produces 160bit outputs (hence 40-characters long hexadecimal digests), so I recounted it for 20-bytes entropy.

As ipa_generate_password creates passwords of only printable characters (and a space) by default, base64 should not be a requirement here. However, a space could be a problem somewhere I guess, should it be removed as well from the defaul behavior of the password generator?
"""

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