passwordutil

Documentation

Overview

Package passwordutil provides utils for generating and validating passwords for users.

Index

• func ComparePasswordAndHash(pwd string, hashedPwd string) (bool, error)
• func Generate(length int) string
• func GeneratePasswordHash(pwd string) (string, error)

Functions

func ComparePasswordAndHash

func ComparePasswordAndHash(pwd string, hashedPwd string) (bool, error)

func Generate

func Generate(length int) string

Generate returns random password of specified length

Note that recommended length is 26, based on rand.Text recommendation, to get 128 bits of randomness, which is plenty for bootstrap password.

func GeneratePasswordHash

func GeneratePasswordHash(pwd string) (string, error)