Command line password and passphrase generator
Passgen can be used to generate a passphrase or a password in the command line.
A passphrase is a string of randomly generated words separated by any symbol. The separator can be anything, including a blank (no separator) or even multiple words with a space between them (The Sky's the Limit!) (or atleast as long as you enclose it within quotes).
A password is just a random string of characters that can be customised to only include uppercase, lowercase, digits or even some special characters.
The command has 2 keywords, phrase and word, which generate a passphrase and a password repectively. Some defaults are already set so simply running passgen word or passgen phrase should generate some reasonable results. However further options are avialable for fine tuning the usage.
usage: passgen [-h] {phrase,word} ...
Generate a password or a passphrase
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
modes available:
to see help for the modes try "passgen phrase -h" or "passgen word -h"
{phrase,word}
phrase generate a passphrase
word generate a password
usage: passgen phrase [-h] [-w WORD_COUNT] [-S SEPARATOR] [-c] [-o OUTPUT] [-y]
Generates a random series of words separated by a character
The phrase keyword needs to be used before any of the options below.
-h,--help- show a help message and exit-l,--length- set the length of each word in passphrase (if the length is set to something which is unavailable in the words file then it defaults back to a random letter length) [DEFAULT: Random]-w,--word-count- set the number of words in passphrase [DEFAULT: 4]-S,--separator- set separator between each word of passphrase [DEFAULT: "-"]-c,--capitalize- capitalize the first letter of each word in the passphrase-o,--output- set a file to output the results to-y,--yank- yank (copy) the results to the system clipboard
passgen phrase -l 6- generates a random string of 4 (Default) words each of length 6 letterspassgen phrase -w 3- generates a random string of 3 words separated by a "-" such asgiven-yard-slippassgen phrase -w 5 -S "#"- generates a random string of 5 words separated by a "#" such aspush#square#hall#satisfy#summerpassgen phrase -c -S "@"- generates a random string of 4 (Default) words separated by an "@" with the first letter of each word capitalized such asConcern@Imagine@Economic@Plane
usage: passgen word [-h] [-l LENGTH] [-nu] [-nl] [-nd] [-s] [-o OUTPUT] [-y]
Generates a random series of words separated by a character
The word keyword needs to be used before any of the options below.
-h,--help- show a help message and exit-l,--length- set the length of the password [DEFAULT: 50]-nu,--no-uppercase- dont allow uppercase characters in the password-nl,--no-lowercase- dont allow lowercase characters in the password-nd,--no-digits- dont allow digits in the password-s,--special-chars- allow special characters in the password-o,--output- set a file to output the results to-y,--yank- yank (copy) the results to the system clipboard
passgen word -l 45- generates a random 45 character password using uppercase, lowercase and digitspassgen word -l 50 -nd- generates a random 50 character password without using any digitspassgen word -s- generates a random 50 character password with uppercase, lowercase, digits and special characters included)passgen word -l 10 -nl -nu- generates a random 10 character password without any uppercase or lowercase characters (ie. using only digits)