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November 6, 2017 11:09
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A basic PowerShell script to generate in bulk random passwords with specific formulation.
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#Number of passwords to generate | |
$numberOfPasswords = 10 | |
#Password formulation | |
$passwordLength = 9 | |
$minimumNumericCharacters = 2 | |
$caps = $true | |
$specials = $false | |
#Password characters sets | |
$characters = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456789" | |
$numbers = "0123456789" | |
$symbols = "!@#$%^&*()" | |
function Get-RandomCharacter { | |
$randomCharacter = (($characters + ($symbols * $specials)).ToCharArray() | Sort-Object {Get-Random})[(Get-Random -Maximum ($characters.Length - 1))] | |
return $randomCharacter | |
} | |
function Get-RandomNumber { | |
$randomNumber = ($numbers.ToCharArray() | Sort-Object {Get-Random})[(Get-Random -Maximum ($numbers.Length - 1))] | |
return $randomNumber | |
} | |
function Get-RandomPassword { | |
for ($i=0; $i -le ($passwordLength - $minimumNumericCharacters); $i++) { | |
$password += Get-RandomCharacter | |
} | |
for ($i=0; $i -le $minimumNumericCharacters; $i++) { | |
$password += Get-RandomNumber | |
} | |
$password = $password.ToCharArray() | Sort-Object {Get-Random} | |
for ($i=0; $i -le $passwordLength; $i++) { | |
$randomPassword += $password[$i] | |
} | |
if ($caps -eq $false) { | |
return $randomPassword.ToLower() | |
} | |
else { | |
return $randomPassword | |
} | |
} | |
function Get-Passwords ($n) { | |
for ($i=0; $i -le $n; $i++) { | |
Get-RandomPassword | |
} | |
} | |
Get-Passwords($numberOfPasswords) | clip |
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