go-password-generator

README

#go-password-generator

This program can be used to generate passwords. By default it generates ten passwords with a length of 20 characters each, drawing from lower-case and upper-case characters, as well as numbers.

You can choose what character sets to use. You can also provide a custom set of characters. The length and number of passwords can be changed, too.

Building from source

Check out the project with:

$ go get github.com/ChristianSiegert/go-password-generator

You should now see the project files at $GOPATH/src/github.com/ChristianSiegert/go-password-generator. It was also built and then installed at $GOPATH/bin. You can execute it now with:

$ go-password-generator

Command-line flags

You can modify the output with these flags:

• --count Number of passwords to generate. Default is 10.
• --custom Custom set of characters to include.
• --length Length of passwords. Default is 20.
• --lower Include lower-case characters a-z. Default is false.
• --numbers Include numbers 0-9. Default is false.
• --special Include special characters !§$%&=?,.-;:_. Default is false.
• --upper Include upper-case characters A-Z. Default is false.
• --verbose Display additional information.

For convenience, if no character set is specified, the password generator automatically includes lower-case and upper-case characters, as well as numbers.

Usage examples

Generate passwords with default settings:

$ go-password-generator

Generate passwords that only contain lower-case characters:

$ go-password-generator --lower

Generate 5 passwords with a length of 16 characters each and include the number set and custom set ñäöüéèꣀ@:

$ go-password-generator --count 5 --length 16 --numbers --custom "ñäöüéèꣀ@"