mkpasswd
: Add --prompts=NUMBER
parameter
#174
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If you are an inaccurate typist like me, you probably want to type your password multiple times to make sure you are hashing the intended password, rather than a mistyped variant of it.
I could just make it prompt twice unconditionally, matching other utilities, but that would be a breaking change in a venerable old tool, so I added a flag to continue to the number of times it should prompt instead.