passwordGenerator

This is a Perl CGI Script to generate a randomized password...

Passwords of 16 or more characters are recommended for security. This script supports up to 16,384 characters. :-)

Most systems should accept passwords up to 64 characters.

FYI, A Gmail password can be up to 100 characters long.

An Outlook/Microsoft account password can be 256 characters long.

Change the length parameter in the URLs below for how long you would like your rendered password to be.

Retrieve a password with a web browser...

https://joelrader.net/cgi-bin/passgen/?length=64

Or cURL...

curl --silent https://joelrader.net/cgi-bin/passgen/?length=64

Or wget...

wget --quiet -O - https://joelrader.net/cgi-bin/passgen/?length=64

Redirect to a file example...

curl --silent https://joelrader.net/cgi-bin/passgen/?length=64 > pass_file.txt

If running the code on your own machine, you may need to install Crypt::RandPasswd and the CGI modules with cpan / cpanm...

A generated password may be shorter than the number submitted in the length parameter. Some special characters ( &, <, ? ) are removed when generating the password.

If you try generating a password with a length over 16384 you'll get a friendly error message asking you to try again with a smaller number.