Versatile Password Generator
VPG is a small Application Programming Interface (API) and Command-Line Interface (CLI) to generate one or more passwords of a fixed length in an opinionated but versatile way by flexibly choosing the character sets from which the characters have to be picked.
$ npm install -g vpg
The Unix manual pages for the API and the CLI contain detailed usage information.
# generate 5 passwords of length 10
# with default character sets
$ vpg -c 5 -l 10
DAh2%vY?7E
4X3&?WTosL
3bG#r@F9UA
8oj&R1QML?
oaX%1P&XD1
# generate 5 passwords of length 10
# with 2 upper-case letters and 8 lower-case letters
# and by avoiding the homoglyphs "1" and "l", and "O" and "o"
$ vpg -c 5 -l 10 -i lowerletter,upperletter:2,digit:2 -d homoglyph:1lOo -e homoglyph
jw8K4aLhae
mpj7M2hGgu
MLud41swhj
D1Tbx1nvqg
9PIa5hjnba
# generate 5 passwords of length 10
# with just binary digits
$ vpg -c 5 -l 10 -d binary:01 -i binary
0110110111
1011101000
0111111111
1111001000
1110100101
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