Random Password Generator

Description

Generates a random password.

Installation

Clone the repo to your machine:

git clone https://github.com/Heleen/pwgen.git

Use easy_install or pip install to install the necessary packages:

easy_install docopt

Use easy_install or pip install to install the optional packages:

easy_install xerox zxcvbn

For easy usage you could add the following to your .bashrc profile: alias pwgen='python {path to file}/pwgen.py'.

Requires

• docopt
• xerox (optional)
• zxcvbn (optional)

Usage

pwgen.py [<length>] [-d | --default] [([-x | --clipboard] | [-p | --print])]
pwgen.py [<length>] [-l | --lowercase] [-u | --uppercase] [-n | --numbers] [-c | --characters] [--charset=<chars>] [([-x | --clipboard] | [-p | --print])]
pwgen.py ( -h | --help)

Options

-h --help           Show this screen.
-d --default        Use default settings (14 -lunc).
-l --lowercase      Add lowercase letters to the character set.
-u --uppercase      Add uppercase letters to the character set.
-n --numbers        Add numbers to the character set.
-c --characters     Add default special characters to the character set.
--charset=<chars>   Add other characters to the character set.
-x --no-clipboard   Do not copy the password to clipboard, but print it to stdout instead.
-p --print          Do print password to stdout and copy it to clipboard.

Note

If zxcvbn is installed the password strength will always be printed (crack time: "instant", "6 minutes" or "centuries", etc., score: [0,1,2,3,4] if crack time is less than [10**2, 10**4, 10**6, 10**8, Infinity]). See the Git repository of zxcvbn for more details.

Note

For easy usage add the following to your .bashrc profile: alias pwgen='python {path to file}/pwgen.py'.

Note

TODO:

• add regex option (for when you need a password which, for example, starts with a capital or has 3 numbers,...).