/ 
App-genpw-0.012
River stage one • 7 direct dependents • 8 total dependents
/ App::genpw

NAME

App::genpw - (Gen)erate random password/strings, with (p)atterns and (w)ordlists

VERSION

This document describes version 0.012 of App::genpw (from Perl distribution App-genpw), released on 2024-01-16.

SYNOPSIS

See the included script genpw.

FUNCTIONS

genpw

Usage:

genpw(%args) -> [$status_code, $reason, $payload, \%result_meta]

(Gen)erate random password/strings, with (p)atterns and (w)ordlists.

This is yet another utility to generate random password. Features:

  • Allow specifying pattern(s), e.g. '%8a%s' means 8 random alphanumeric characters followed by a symbol.

  • Use words from wordlists.

  • Use strong random source when available, otherwise fallback to Perl's builtin rand().

Examples:

By default generate base56 password 12-20 characters long (-p %12$20B):

% genpw
Uk7Zim6pZeMTZQUyaM

Generate 5 passwords instead of 1:

% genpw 5
igYiRhUb5t9d9f3J
b7D44pnxZHJGQzDy2eg
RXDtqjMvp2hNAdQ
Xz3DmAL94akqtZ5xb
7TfANv9yxAaMGXm

Generate random digits between 10 and 12 characters long:

% genpw -p '%10$12d'
55597085674

Generate password in the form of a random word + 4 random digits. Words will be fed from STDIN:

% genpw -p '%w%4d' < /usr/share/dict/words
shafted0412

Like the above, but words will be fetched from WordList::* modules. You need to install the genpw-wordlist CLI. By default, will use wordlist from WordList::EN::Enable:

% genpw -p '%(wordlist:EN::Enable)w%4d'

% genpw-wordlist -p '%w%4d'
sedimentologists8542

Generate a random GUID:

% genpw -p '%8h-%4h-%4h-%4h-%12h'
ff26d142-37a8-ecdf-c7f6-8b6ae7b27695

Like the above, but in uppercase:

% genpw -p '%(u)8h-%(u)4h-%(u)4h-%(u)4h-%(u)12h'
CA333840-6132-33A1-9C31-F2FF20EDB3EA

% genpw -p '%8h-%4h-%4h-%4h-%12h' -U
22E13D9E-1187-CD95-1D05-2B92A09E740D

Use configuration file to avoid typing the pattern every time, put this in ~/genpw.conf:

[profile=guid]
patterns = "%8h-%4h-%4h-%4h-%12h"

then:

% genpw -P guid
008869fa-177e-3a46-24d6-0900a00e56d5

Keywords: generate, pattern, wordlist

This function is not exported.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • action => str (default: "gen")

    (No description)

  • case => str (default: "default")

    Force casing.

    default means to not change case. random changes casing some letters randomly to lower-/uppercase. lower forces lower case. upper forces UPPER CASE. title forces Title case.

  • len => posint

    If no pattern is supplied, will generate random alphanum characters with this exact length.

  • max_len => posint

    If no pattern is supplied, will generate random alphanum characters with this maximum length.

  • min_len => posint

    If no pattern is supplied, will generate random alphanum characters with this minimum length.

  • num => int (default: 1)

    (No description)

  • patterns => array[str]

    Pattern(s) to use.

    A pattern is string that is roughly similar to a printf pattern:

    %P

    (where P is certain letter signifying a conversion) will be replaced with some other string according to the conversion, among which is the w conversion below:

    %Nw

    (where N is a number) will be replaced by a word of length N.

    %N$Mw

    (where N and M is a number) will be replaced by a word of length between N and M. And finally, an optional argument inside parenthesis is allowed:

    %(u)10h       ; hexdigits in uppercase (due to argument 'u')
%(u)w         ; hexdigits in lowercase

    Anything else will be used as-is.

    Available conversions:

    %l   Random Latin letter (A-Z, a-z)
%d   Random digit (0-9)
%h   Random hexdigit (0-9a-f in lowercase [default] or 0-9A-F in uppercase).
     Known arguments:
     - "u" (for selecting uppercase).
%a   Random letter/digit (Alphanum) (A-Z, a-z, 0-9; combination of %l and %d)
%s   Random ASCII symbol, e.g. "-" (dash), "_" (underscore), etc.
%x   Random letter/digit/ASCII symbol (combination of %a and %s)
%m   Base64 character (A-Z, a-z, 0-9, +, /)
%b   Base58 character (A-Z, a-z, 0-9 minus IOl0)
%B   Base56 character (A-Z, a-z, 0-9 minus IOol01)
%%   A literal percent sign
%w   Random word. Known arguments:
     - "stdin:" (for getting the words from stdin, the default)
     - "wordlist:NAME" (for getting the words from a L<WordList> module)
     - "arraydata:NAME" (for getting the words from an L<ArrayData> module, the
       Role::TinyCommons::Collection::PickItems::RandomPos will be applied).

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element ($status_code) is an integer containing HTTP-like status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element ($reason) is a string containing error message, or something like "OK" if status is 200. Third element ($payload) is the actual result, but usually not present when enveloped result is an error response ($status_code is not 2xx). Fourth element (%result_meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information, much like how HTTP response headers provide additional metadata.

Return value: (any)

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-genpw.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-App-genpw.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTING

To contribute, you can send patches by email/via RT, or send pull requests on GitHub.

Most of the time, you don't need to build the distribution yourself. You can simply modify the code, then test via:

% prove -l

If you want to build the distribution (e.g. to try to install it locally on your system), you can install Dist::Zilla, Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, Pod::Weaver::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, and sometimes one or two other Dist::Zilla- and/or Pod::Weaver plugins. Any additional steps required beyond that are considered a bug and can be reported to me.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2024, 2020, 2018 by perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-genpw

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.