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One-Liner: Generate a Random Password

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Always learning. Forever delighted. Happily surprised.

That's using PowerShell for you... well, me. 

The other week one of my customers showed me this little beauty:

[System.Web.Security.Membership]::GeneratePassword(20,5)

 

The GeneratePassword static method accepts two values: the first parameter is the number of characters in the generated password; the second parameter is the number of non-alphanumeric characters to include.

With the above one-liner we get a 20 character password with 5 non-alphanumeric characters. For example:

  

This has replaced the lengthy New-Password function I had in my $profile...

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  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2016
    I'm missing something, running PS v4.0 but...

    Unable to find type [System.Web.Security.Membership]. Make sure that the assembly that contains this type is loaded.

    Clue pls!
  • Anonymous
    February 05, 2016
    Let me take a look-see...
  • Anonymous
    March 31, 2016
    The comment has been removed
  • Anonymous
    June 13, 2016
    Thank you, this was very useful.