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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<h1>Easy Password Generation</h1>
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<figure class="quote">
<blockquote>
<p>Why does JavaScript suck? The answer is simple: history. JavaScript
was created by a really smart guy called Brendan Eich over a period of
a week or so. He did it because Microsoft was largely perceived as
evil, and his aim was to create a programming platform in the Netscape
navigator. That way, the browser would run everywhere, and the OS
wouldn't matter as much. HAHA! Down with Microsoft. You can see how
well that worked out.</p>
</blockquote>
<figcaption>
Sahil Malik
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<p>
<em>
You can find the <code>mkpass</code> git repository over at
<a href="https://git.st.ht/~mango/mkpass"
target="_blank">sourcehut</a>
or <a href="https://github.com/Mango0x45/mkpass">GitHub</a>.
</em>
</p>
<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#prologue">Prologue</a></li>
<li><a href="#usage">Basic Usage</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="prologue">Prologue</h2>
<p>
Password generators are incredibly useful for those who don’t use the
same password everywhere. The issue is that everyone uses the same
password everywhere. Hopefully when people see how easy password
generation can be, that’ll change; there really is no excuse to not use
different passwords these days. <code>mkpass</code> aims to be the
absolute simplest password generator possible while still providing the
functionality you need.ls
</p>
<p>
Two factor authentication is also something you should be using — and
something that is very easy to manage — and something that I will be
posting about shortly™.
</p>
<h2 id="usage">Basic Usage</h2>
<p>
The most basic usage of <code>mkpass</code> is to just
call <code>mkpass</code>. By default this will generate a 64-character
password made up of random printable characters. If you need to use
specific characters (for example, maybe you can only use alphanumeric
characters) then you can simply specify a
<code><a href="https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/tr.1.html"
target="_blank">tr(1)</a></code> style range:
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<pre>m4_fmt_code(basic-usage.sh.html)</pre>
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<p>
You can also specify the length of the password using
the <code>-l</code> flag:
</p>
<figure>
<pre>m4_fmt_code(length-flag.sh.html)</pre>
</figure>
And that ladies and gentlemen, is the entire program. A nice minimal tool
that does one thing and one thing only, while integrating nicely with the
UNIX environment. This is (in my opinion), an example of well-designed
software.
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