mleby/passwdgen

human readable password generator

passwdgen

Human readable and pronounceable password generator writen in perl. Freely inspired by utility on old SCO OpenServer.

But it can generate stronger password, with special characers and arbitrary lenght. Program generate proposals and user can choose (and modify) by own taste.

Overview

 -h ... help
 -u ... use upercase too
 -s ... use special characters too
 -n ... use numbers too
 -c x ... count of suggestion
 -l x ... length of password
 -f 'xx' ... regex in context

Some examples:

$ perl passwdgen 
bykehykr
glhimoxo
kedecrme
xlbyslpu
diblcrxi
frflzrho
hrvudrli
prrlllhr
jiwujrwy
hugyhivi
nyqidifo
hlcisykr
crnejobi
nuprkide
jrrinuna
ponamrne
pucodldo
lrmafabo
lymyhlfu
xrbucoke

$ perl passwdgen -c 3 -l 12 -u -n
qeqy6a4I9YTy
FYXaBIPOBYTe
KU7yqatuCyzY

$ perl passwdgen -c 3 -l 50 -u -n -s
5[G(Puh_h}t]7~N~p*luc(QyJ!b-MUH&z]T&r{d[T#Q(d:t^Re
k!T@p#9!RUt*D,J=r:wy0=v#Z*v:MLW~3A9A0.W/V(9o7eP%V)
fRxen!1!mRMUv{rik[w]K}q@N]nIK~5@d)v*cyKrJoLEX.KUN,

$ perl passwdgen -c 3 -f were
werelrnl
bawerepl
zeweregy

Install

Copy script passwdgen to your favourite path and set executable bit with chmod +x passwdgen or use perl explicitly (as you can see in examples).