mkpasswd - generate passwords

Installation

Using cargo:

cargo install mkpasswd

You then have access to the mkpasswd command.

Usage

If you simply want a securely generated random password, simply run mkpasswd to get a password with special characters and a length of 32 letters.

However, the tool offer more options.

• The password length can be set by passing a command line argument like mkpasswd 10, which will generate a 10-character password.

• If you want to generate multiple passwords, pass --count or -n like mkpasswd -n 5.

You can always pass --help or -h to mkpasswd to retrieve this help.

Using alphabets

An alphabet defines the character the password can contain.

The standard alphabet is --password.

There a few predefined alphabets, which can passed directly:

--password              a-z, A-Z, 0-9, each of =+-*/,;:.!?&|^<>(){}_%@#
--latin-numbers         a-z, A-Z, 0-9
--base64                a-z, A-Z, 0-9, +, /
--base64-url            a-z, A-Z, 0-9, -, _
--numbers               0-9
--latin                 a-z, A-Z
--latin-lower           a-z
--latin-lower-numbers   a-z, 0-9
--latin-upper           A-Z
--latin-upper-numbers   A-Z, 0-9

Another option is passing a string containg all the characters you want after --alphabet or -a:

mkpass -a "qwertyQWERTY"