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dispass.el Emacs wrapper
Generate and disperse/dispell passwords.
dispass.el is an emacs wrapper around DisPass.
Installation
Place this file somewhere on your filesystem, either in your
load-path or somewhere else which you will have to add to your
load-path, like so:
(add-to-list 'load-path "/location/of/dispass.el")
And then load, require or autoload it in your emacs init file, for
example:
(require 'dispass)
Or if you have package.el you could use package-install-file.
Customization
dispass.el only offers customization of the dispass-executable
variable for the moment. This is the location where the DisPass
executable is located.
Usage
Using dispass.el is simple, once installed. Either call dispass to
recall a previously generated password or call dispass-create to
generate a new password.
The only real difference between the two is that dispass-create
asks to confirm the password. Both will ask for a label.
When a numeric argument is used when calling either dispass-create
or dispass, that argument is sent to the dispass program along with
the -l switch. This cuts the length of the password to that many
characters. For example:
C-5 M-x dispass<RET> test<RET> test<RET>
will generate a password of 5 characters for label "test" and password "test".
Once a password has been generated it is inserted into the kill
ring and the system's clipboard so it can be easily inserted into
password field, this makes the generated password easy to see in
plaintext in the kill-ring variable, though.