genpass

genpass is a simple utility written in Rust for quickly generating random passwords of a user-specified length with customizable character sets.

Implementation

• Random password generation from Latin characters (upper and lower case), numbers and special characters.
• A simple command to create a password of any length.
• Suitable for quick use in the command line.
• Use custom text patterns

Requirements

• Rust ~> 1.82.0.

Installation

1. Clone the repository or download the source code:

   git clone https://github.com/kostDev/genpass.git
   cd genpass
   cargo run --package genpass --bin genpass --quiet

2. Build the project in release mode:

   cargo build --release

3. Make the utility available globally (optional):

   sudo cp target/release/genpass /usr/local/bin/

Launching

genpass

examples:

example 1: default 'a' 'n' 's'

➜ genpass
>> 24 a n s
Yours generated password[24]: 5=~v;4cv1f;1.8nfto+.+;5@
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example 2: 'custom user pattern'

➜ genpass
>> 24 @#$%^.
Yours generated password[24]: %@#@@#@.$%@.$$.#^%@@@.@.
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example 3: combining 

>> 24 a n @_@_@:
Yours generated password[24]: @t_3d@27lo8gx1c1b2v@@o4d

where:

• a: lowercase [a-z]
• aa: uppercase [A-Z]
• s: symbols: [#$%^*_-=+~;[<{(:&|@:)}>];~.?!]
• n: numbers [0-9]