Generate Random Password

Generates random passphrase of given length

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• ⬆️ Top of Document

• 🏗️ Requirements

• ⚡ Quick Start

  • 💾 Clone
  • ➕ Install
  • 🔥 Uninstall
  • ⬆️ Upgrade
  • 📑 Documentation

• 🧰 Usage

• 🗒 Notes

• 📈 Contributing

  • 🔱 Forking
  • 💱 Sponsor

• 📇 Attribution

• ⚖️ Licensing

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Requirements

This repository depends upon git, head, tr, and printf command-line utilities, please use the package manager for your distribution to install these dependencies, eg...

• Arch based Operating Systems

sudo packman -Syy

sudo packman -S coreutils git make

• Debian derived Operating Systems...

sudo apt-get install coreutils git make

Additionally this project makes use of Git Submodules to track Bash script dependencies, to avoid incomplete downloads clone with the --recurse-submodules option...

git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:paranoid-linux/generate-random-password.git

After cloning to update tracked Git Submodules issue the following commands...

git pull

git submodule update --init --merge --recursive

To force upgrade of Git Submodules...

git submodule update --init --merge --recursive --remote

Note, forcing and update of Git Submodule tracked dependencies may cause instabilities and/or merge conflicts; if however everything operates as expected after an update please consider submitting a Pull Request.

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Quick Start

Perhaps as easy as one, 2.0,...

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Clone

Clone this project...

mkdir -vp ~/git/hub/paranoid-linux

cd ~/git/hub/paranoid-linux

git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:paranoid-linux/generate-random-password.git

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Install

If not using a plugin manager, then this plugin may be installed via make install command...

cd ~/git/hub/paranoid-linux/generate-random-password

make install

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Uninstall

If not using a plugin manager, then this plugin may be uninstalled via uninstall Make target...

cd ~/git/hub/paranoid-linux/generate-random-password

make uninstall

... Which will remove symbolic links and update the Vim help tags file.

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Upgrade

To update in the future use make upgrade command...

cd ~/git/hub/paranoid-linux/generate-random-password

make upgrade

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Documentation

After installation, plugin documentation may be accessed via Vim's man command...

man generate-random-password

... or, via --help parameter...

generate-random-password --help

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Usage

Provide minimum character length for random password to generate...

generate-random-password 32
#> LUy+c99K(t$sF I9XG"?.$8l/=Ld]xwT

Or supply minimum and maximum range of characters...

generate-random-password 32 42
#> gbMCn>cC^OzF1/!9`sx0h|@9&f}YZ?B?4<+m(v>&XE

... which generates a random password between min/max values; inclusively.

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Notes

This repository may not be feature complete and/or fully functional, Pull Requests that add features or fix bugs are certainly welcomed.

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Contributing

Options for contributing to generate-random-password and paranoid-linux

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Forking

Start making a Fork of this repository to an account that you have write permissions for.

• Add remote for fork URL. The URL syntax is git@github.com:<NAME>/<REPO>.git...

cd ~/git/hub/paranoid-linux/generate-random-password

git remote add fork git@github.com:<NAME>/generate-random-password.git

• Commit your changes and push to your fork, eg. to fix an issue...

cd ~/git/hub/paranoid-linux/generate-random-password


git commit -F- <<'EOF'
:bug: Fixes #42 Issue


**Edits**


- `<SCRIPT-NAME>` script, fixes some bug reported in issue
EOF


git push fork main

Note, the -u option may be used to set fork as the default remote, eg. git push fork main however, this will also default the fork remote for pulling from too! Meaning that pulling updates from origin must be done explicitly, eg. git pull origin main

• Then on GitHub submit a Pull Request through the Web-UI, the URL syntax is https://github.com/<NAME>/<REPO>/pull/new/<BRANCH>

Note; to decrease the chances of your Pull Request needing modifications before being accepted, please check the dot-github repository for detailed contributing guidelines.

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Sponsor

Thanks for even considering it!

With you may sponsor paranoid-linux on a repeating basis.

Regardless of if you're able to financially support projects such as generate-random-password that paranoid-linux maintains, please consider sharing projects that are useful with others, because one of the goals of maintaining Open Source repositories is to provide value to the community.

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Attribution

• GitHub -- github-utilities/make-readme

• Unix StackExchange -- How to generate a random string?

• StackOverflow -- How to generate random number in Bash?

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License

Documentation for generating random passphrase of given length
Copyright (C) 2020 S0AndS0

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

For further details review full length version of AGPL-3.0 License.