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Install this package:

emerge -a dev-perl/String-Random

If the package is masked, you can unmask it using the autounmask tool or standard emerge options:

autounmask dev-perl/String-Random

Or alternatively:

emerge --autounmask-write -a dev-perl/String-Random

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Description:

This module makes it trivial to generate random strings. As an example, let's say you are writing a script that needs to generate a random password for a user. The relevant code might look something like this: use String::Random; my $pass = String::Random->new; print "Your password is ", $pass->randpattern("CCcc!ccn"), "\n"; This would output something like this: Your password is UDwp$tj5 NOTE!!!: currently, String::Random defaults to Perl's built-in predictable random number generator so the passwords generated by it are insecure. See the rand_gen option to String::Random constructor to specify a more secure random number generator. There is no equivalent to this in the procedural interface, you must use the object-oriented interface to get this functionality.

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Description

• This module makes it trivial to generate random strings. As an example, let's say you are writing a script that needs to generate a random password for a user. The relevant code might look something like this: use String::Random; my $pass = String::Random->new; print "Your password is ", $pass->randpattern("CCcc!ccn"), "\n"; This would output something like this: Your password is UDwp$tj5 NOTE!!!: currently, String::Random defaults to Perl's built-in predictable random number generator so the passwords generated by it are insecure. See the rand_gen option to String::Random constructor to specify a more secure random number generator. There is no equivalent to this in the procedural interface, you must use the object-oriented interface to get this functionality.

Maintainers

• Chris Travers (chris.travers@gmail.com) - Type: person
• Proxy Maintainers (proxy-maint@gentoo.org) - Type: project
• Unknown (perl@gentoo.org) - Type: project

Upstream

• Remote IDs:
  • cpan: String::Random
  • cpan-module: String::Random

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	<maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
		<email>chris.travers@gmail.com</email>
		<name>Chris Travers</name>
	</maintainer>
	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
	</maintainer>
	<maintainer type="project">
		<email>perl@gentoo.org</email>
	</maintainer>
	<longdescription lang="en">
This module makes it trivial to generate random strings.

As an example, let's say you are writing a script that needs to generate a random password for a user. The relevant code might look something like this:

use String::Random;
my $pass = String::Random->new;
print "Your password is ", $pass->randpattern("CCcc!ccn"), "\n";
This would output something like this:

Your password is UDwp$tj5
NOTE!!!: currently, String::Random defaults to Perl's built-in predictable random number generator so the passwords generated by it are insecure. See the rand_gen option to String::Random constructor to specify a more secure random number generator. There is no equivalent to this in the procedural interface, you must use the object-oriented interface to get this functionality.
</longdescription>
	<upstream>
		<remote-id type="cpan">String::Random</remote-id>
		<remote-id type="cpan-module">String::Random</remote-id>
	</upstream>
</pkgmetadata>

Lint Warnings

• [Warning] Ebuild 0.320.0 is missing HOMEPAGE
• [Error] Missing md5-cache for ebuild String-Random-0.320.0

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