passgen

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passgen 🔐

PassGen: A CLI tool to generate secure passwords with specified options, including length, special characters, number of passwords, and output format and much more.

Installation 🏗

Using Go

You can install the tool using Go:

go install github.com/escalopa/passgen@v0.0.1
passgen --help

Using Docker

docker pull dekuyo/passgen:v0.0.1
docker run --rm dekuyo/passgen:v0.0.1 --help

Usage

Generating a Password

You can generate passwords using the generate command. The command takes various parameters:

Flag	Shorthand	Description	Default Value
--length	-l	Length of the password	12
--use-signs	-s	Include special characters in the password	false
--hash-times	-t	Number of times to hash the password with Argon2	1
--num-passwords	-n	Number of passwords to generate	1
--output	-o	Output format (json, table, raw)	json
--custom-chars	-c	Custom characters to use for password generation	""

Examples

Generate a password of length 16:

passgen --length 16

Generate 5 passwords of length 16 with special characters and hash them 5 times:

passgen --length 16 --use-signs --hash-times 5 --num-passwords 5

Generate a password with custom characters and output in table format:

passgen --custom-chars "abcdef123$%" --output json

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or submit a pull