randpass

Randpass v0.3.0

Ruby random password generator.
Generate password and copy in clipboard, or generate list and/or save as .txt file.
File is saved as plain text, it is up to end-user to decide how to secure it.

Password is generated with SecureRandom#base64 and a few (random) special characters ! # * $ % _ @

Dependencies

Randpass use clipboard-gem, that require xsel or xclip on Linux systems.
Setup script will check and install xsel if nothing is found.

How to use:

Use from terminal:

When generating a single password, you don't need any argument, or you can add number of password characters (default is 25). By default, password is printed in STDOUT and copied to clipboard, but not saved as file.

• generate password with 25 characters
  randpass

• generate password with 30 characters
  randpass 30
randpass --char 30

• clear clipboard
  randpass -k
randpass --clear

• add -c or --noc to disable clipboard copy
  randpass 35 -c

• add -p or --nop to disable STDOUT
  randpass 20 -p

When generating a list of passwords, you need to supply -n or --char to set number of password characters (default is 25). Passwords will be saved in a current working directory (unless otherwise specified) in format randpass_#{Time.now.to_i}.txt. This way we avoid overwrite, and it's possible to get time of file generation with Time.at TIME_INTEGER

• generate password list from comments (20 characters long password)
  randpass -n 20 -l GitHub RubyGems AnotherWebSite

• generate password list with 10 passwords - without comments
  randpass -r 10
randpass -n 20 -r 10

• add -s or --nos to disable saving list as a file
  randpass -n 20 -r 5 -s randpass -r 10 --nos --noc

• add -d or --dir as location to store password list
  randpass -r 10 -d 'my_path/directory'

How to install

• install from rubygems

gem install randpass && randpass -i

• download from github with ssh

git clone [e-mail]:alx3dev/randpass \
cd randpass && randpass -i

• download from github with https

git clone https://www.github.com/alx3dev/randpass \
cd randpass && randpass -i

Tested on:

• ruby 2.7.5
• ruby 3.0.3
• ruby 3.1.0
• ruby 3.1.3
• jruby 9.3.2.0