Package: pass
Version: 1.7.3-2
Severity: normal
Since the bullseye upgrade (at least?), `pass generate` has been
complaining like this:
anarcat@curie:~$ pass generate foo
tr: write error: Broken pipe
tr: write error
[master xxxxxx] Add generated password for foo.
1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 foo.gpg
The generated password for foo is:
[...]
This is probably because pass uses something like this to generate
passwords. I don't remember exactly what the code is anymore, but it's
the same in spirit:
pwge() {
ENTROPY=${1:-20} # in bytes
# strip possible newlines if output is wrapped and trailing = signs as they
add nothing to the password's entropy
head -c $ENTROPY /dev/random | base64 | tr -d '\n='
echo
}
... and that code yields the same error.
Oddly, I cannot reproduce this issue anymore, as of this writing. It's
unclear to me what, exactly, is triggering this issue, because I
cannot reproduce it right now. But I've seen it often enough to
warrant a bug report.
I would be ready to bet this is due to entropy gathering. Maybe `tr`
fails when `/dev/random` isn't full enough?
Anyways, this was scary enough to warrant a bug report, in my humble
opinion. Feel free to close if you are more familiar with the issue
and do not witness the problem ever.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.4
APT prefers stable-security
APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable'),
(1, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-16-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND,
TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages pass depends on:
ii gnupg 2.2.27-2+deb11u2
ii tree 1.8.0-1+b1
Versions of packages pass recommends:
ii git 1:2.30.2-1
ii qrencode 4.1.1-1
ii xclip 0.13-2
Versions of packages pass suggests:
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1
ii perl 5.32.1-4+deb11u2
pn python <none>
ii python3 3.9.2-3
ii ruby 1:2.7+2
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