From bfeece461b565dbdc8172b61b063e528e5f9a218 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: drduh <drduh@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 00:29:12 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Accurate max password length

---
 pwd.sh | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pwd.sh b/pwd.sh
index 7b80ba5..92e9dd8 100755
--- a/pwd.sh
+++ b/pwd.sh
@@ -76,13 +76,14 @@ gen_pass () {
   # Generate a password.
 
   len=40
-  read -p "Password length? (default: 40, max: 80) " length
+  read -p "Password length? (default: 40, max: 100) " length
 
   if [[ ${length} =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] ; then
     len=${length}
   fi
 
-  ${gpg} --gen-random -a 0 80 | cut -c -${len}
+  # base64: 4 characters for every 3 bytes
+  ${gpg} --gen-random -a 0 75 | cut -c -${len}
 }