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bbusschots / hsxkpasswd

A Perl module and terminal command for generating secure memorable passwords inspired by the fabulous XKCD web comic and Steve Gibson's Password Hay Stacks. This is the library that powers www.xkpasswd.net
http://www.bartb.ie/xkpasswd
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Consider creating a Homebrew formula #10

Open PlotCitizen opened 9 years ago

PlotCitizen commented 9 years ago

I use Homebrew exclusively for installing any CLI applications, but aside from the few simple commands I know, getting under the hood and creating the formula myself seems a bit tricky to me.

Being the lead developer, it would be very convenient if you created a formula for HSXKPasswd yourself in order to avoid any errors a formula created by somebody else in the future would have, as well as to help expose HSXKPasswd to more people who may find it useful.

Thanks :blush:

dburr commented 9 years ago

I'd be happy to take a stab at this.

bknowles commented 9 years ago

I believe that cpan is installed in /usr/bin/cpan by default on OSX, and so the installation method of using "sudo cpan Crypt::HSXKPasswd" should work.

No?

PlotCitizen commented 9 years ago

@bknowles I haven't tried, but it definitely should work, as you said. However I am a bit cautious to start using CPAN or any other package manager (especially one confined to programs of a specific language, like, in this case, Perl) because that only adds complexity to my existing build, and speaking from past experience will probably be forgotten in a few weeks and linger on my system. That's the reason I would like to see it added to Homebrew, even though I also have no problem compiling and/or running the program as it is currently distributed.

bknowles commented 9 years ago

I just installed hsxkpasswd using cpan on Yosemite 10.10.4, and it worked fine. Just take the defaults, and you're good to go.

However, I can see the desire to take that and make it even more fully automated by creating a Homebrew formula to make that process completely invisible to the user.

bbusschots commented 9 years ago

I'm not sure Homebrew is a good fit here. The terminal command is in fact a Perl script, so you really do need a working Perl environment to run it.

If you like the homebrew mentality of installing stuff into your home dir and leaving the system un-changed, then I would suggest using perlbrew to install the module. This is how I test the module on different versions of Perl.

You can get perlbrew here: http://perlbrew.pl

Once perlbrew is installed, you need to install at least one version of perl, you can see all available versions with: perlbrew available

The latest stable version is 5.22, so I would suggest installing that perl with: perlbrew install perl-5.22.0 (HSXKPasswd works in all versions from 5.16.0 up).

Once you have a perl installed, you need to start using it with a command like perlbrew switch perl-5.22.0

Next you need to enable perlbrew's CPAN client: perlbrew install-cpanm

Finally, use perlbrew's CPAN client to install the module: cpanm Crypt::HSXKPasswd

If someone else wants to do a homebrew recipe, go ahead, but it's not something I feel comfortable providing at the moment, I simply don't have enough homebrew experience.

notDavid commented 8 years ago

I just installed hsxkpasswd using cpan on Yosemite 10.10.4, and it worked fine.

Does that also install the "hsxkpasswd" terminal command? If so, where is it?

I think it's quite confusing, would be nice if the steps needed to install and run the terminal command on OS X would be documented somewhere (for normal users, without all kind of kung fu like perlbrew).

notDavid commented 8 years ago

Ignore my comment, the problem was caused by a permission problem on my system. sudo cpan Crypt::HSXKPasswd works indeed, the script is installed in /usr/local/bin/hsxkpasswd