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Password generators.

Based on actual use cases encountered in the wild.

• mixed: (alpha) + (num) + (symbol)
• alphanum: some systems don't allow symbols
• num: primarily those intended for phone usage

Usage

Naked

lib/* mode length
lib/* mode
lib/* length
lib/*

mode = m[ixed]|a[lphanum]|n[um] ; default mixed
length = (integer >= 3) ; default = 12

npm

npm install password-generate

let PasswordGenerate = require('password-generate')
console.log(PasswordGenerate.generate(mode, length))
console.log(PasswordGenerate.generate(mode))
console.log(PasswordGenerate.generate(length))
console.log(PasswordGenerate.generate())

gem

gem install password_generate

require 'password_generate'
p PasswordGenerate.generate mode, length
p PasswordGenerate.generate mode
p PasswordGenerate.generate length
p PasswordGenerate.generate

composer

composer require yalesov/password-generate

use password_generate\PasswordGenerate;
echo PasswordGenerate::generate($mode, $length);
echo PasswordGenerate::generate($mode);
echo PasswordGenerate::generate($length);
echo PasswordGenerate::generate();

bash

./password-generate.sh mode length
./password-generate.sh mode
./password-generate.sh length
./password-generate.sh

perl

./password-generate.pl mode length
./password-generate.pl mode
./password-generate.pl length
./password-generate.pl

Notes

Symbol

Only using the underscore _.

Some don't allow fancier symbols, but the underscore seems accepted everywhere.

Alpha

Assuming both uppercase and lowercase allowed.

The only contrary case I have seen is banks, which uses case-insensitive passwords - but then it doesn't disallow inputting both upper- and lower- case either.

Num

Ever-present.

I haven't seen a system that disallow numeric inputs yet.

First character

Is always an alpha.

Systems have various rules disallowing what is or is not allowed, but the alpha seems accepted everywhere.