Comprehensive Password Generator

This cross-platform compatible software will generate a password comprehensively.

Features

Admittedly, the word "comprehensive" is not a scientific term. In this software, the term "comprehensive" boasts the following features when generating a password:

1. No characters are repeated (unless explicitly allowed).
2. Ensure at least one of each type of character is present:
   • uppercase letters
   • lowercase letters
   • decimal integers (if permitted)
   • special characters (if permitted)
3. Ensure the first character is a letter (if enabled). When enabled, the first character will be either a uppercase or lowercase alphabetical letter.

What is a "special" character?

This software uses the following set of characters to generate special characters in a password:

- . / \ : ` + & , @ $ ! _ # % ~

The space character is not actually considered a special character, but spaces are used to make the above set more readable.

Obviously, this is not an exhaustive list of all printable, non-alphanumeric characters. However, these are special characters that are widely accepted by most sign-on services.

Command Line Interface

While this software can be used as a library, a binary executable is also provided for each release.

A document generated from the rust sources details the CLI options. See the hosted CLI doc.

The following command will print the available options and their default values.

mk-pass -h
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