DESCRIPTION

Mkpasswd - Overfeatured front end to crypt(3) SYNOPSIS¶ mkpasswd PASSWORD SALT DESCRIPTION¶ mkpasswd encrypts the given password with the crypt(3) libc function, using the given salt. OPTIONS¶-S, -salt=STRING Use the STRING as salt. If it begins with $ then it will be passed straight to crypt(3) without any checks.-R, -rounds=NUMBER. On Debian you can use mkpasswd to create passwords with different hashing algorithms suitable for /etc/shadow. It is included in the package whois (according to apt-file) mkpasswd -m sha-512 mkpasswd -m md5 to get a list of available hashing algoritms type: mkpasswd -m help HTH.

String::MkPasswd - random password generator

This Perl library defines a single function, mkpasswd(), to generate random passwords. The function is meant to be a simple way for developers and system administrators to easily generate a relatively secure password.

The exportable mkpasswd() function returns a single scalar: a random password. By default, this password is nine characters long with a random distribution of four lower-case characters, two upper-case characters, two digits, and one non-alphanumeric character. These parameters can be tuned by the user, as described in the 'ARGUMENTS' section.

ARGUMENTS

The mkpasswd() function takes an optional hash of arguments.

-length

The total length of the password. The default is 9.

-minnum

The minimum number of digits that will appear in the final password. The default is 2.

-minlower

The minimum number of lower-case characters that will appear in the final password. The default is 2.

-minupper

The minimum number of upper-case characters that will appear in the final password. The default is 2.

-minspecial

The minimum number of non-alphanumeric characters that will appear in the final password. The default is 1.

-distribute

If set to a true value, password characters will be distributed between the left- and right-hand sides of the keyboard. This makes it more difficult for an onlooker to see the password as it is typed. The default is false.

-noambiguous

If set to a true value, password characters will not include any that might be mistaken for others. This is particularly helpful if you're distributing a printed list of passwords to a group of people. The default is false.

-fatal

If set to a true value, mkpasswd() will Carp::croak() rather than return undef on error. The default is false.

If -minnum, -minlower, -minupper, and -minspecial do not add up to -length, -minlower will be increased to compensate. However, if -minnum, -minlower, -minupper, and -minspecial add up to more than -length, then mkpasswd() will return undef. See the section entitled 'EXCEPTION HANDLING' for how to change this behavior.

EXCEPTION HANDLING

By default, mkpasswd() will return undef if it cannot generate a password. Some people are inclined to exception handling, so String::MkPasswd does its best to accommodate them. If the variable $String::MkPasswd::FATAL is set to a true value, mkpasswd() will Carp::croak() with an error instead of returning undef.

EXPORT

None by default. The mkpasswd() method is exportable.

http://expect.nist.gov/#examples, mkpasswd(1)

Mkpasswd Package

Don Libes of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, who wrote the Expect example, mkpasswd(1).

Chris Grau <cgrau@cpan.org>

Mkpasswd Online

Copyright (C) 2003-2012 by Chris Grau

Linux Mkpasswd

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.1 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.