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Designed to use what is known about users via the /etc/passwd file on unix/linux systems to generate a dynamic dictionary or csv file of more accurate guesses as to what their possible password may be, to look for bad password protection practices.

...Implemented as a self contained perl script that should work on many unix like systems. The passphrase-generator defaults to only 3 words instead of the 4 suggested by XKCD, but uses a larger dictionary found in many unix like systems at /usr/share/dict/words. It also provides estimates for the entropy of the generated passphrases. The randomization is based on /dev/urandom and SHA1. See http://xkcd.com/936/ for an entertaining take on passwords vs. passphrases. See my post in stackoverflow for links to other solutions and discussions on passphrases vs passwords: http://stackoverflow.com/a/12646320/1148030