kecebongsoft / passpy

A simple python-based password generator

passpy

This is a simple password generator, it will generate passwords based on hash of salt and phrase combination. This way, you can easily manage different passwords for various services with just memorizing the phrase.

To create a new password, run:

pass.py -n

At first it will find a salt file at ~/.saltpass, if not exists, it will ask you for a default salt, but you can always customize the salt afterwards.

The command above will then ask you for the phrase, and then copy the generated password to clipboard without printing it to stdout. You can then paste it to anywhere. Please note that copying to cipboard currently only works on Mac, to see the generated password, you can pass -o option.

The -n option on the above command will simply confirm the pharse to avoid typos. This is good when you are creating new password, like when you are about to register/change your password on some services. If you just want to generate a password, run pass.py without any options.

In case you want to customize the salt, pass the -s option, the command will then ask you for a custom salt before asking for phrase. You can also combine this with -n option.

In the case of password length-limit, you can pass -l <length> argument to set the final length of the password, for example:

pass.py -l 10

Todo:

• Confirm custom salt on -n mode.
• Make hash algorithm customizable
• Make SUFFIX customizable
• Change .saltpass filename to something more relevant
• Support clipboard on Windows and Linux machines
• Add manual to put passpy on zshrc/bashrc alias