Generate a random password with a specified length — random_password • jimstools

This function generates a random passord sampled from the ASCII table.

random_password(length = 12, replace = FALSE, extended = TRUE)

Arguments

length: length of the password
replace: sample from the ASCII table with (TRUE) or without (FALSE) replacement?
extended: if FALSE, use alphanumeric characters only; otherwise use all the ASCII characters

Value

a character string

See also

Examples

random_password()
#> [1] "Ui&hntDxAKz@"
# set the seed to get fixed password every time; you may just remember the
# seed and forget the real password because it's reproducible
set.seed(123)
random_password()
#> [1] ">nR-bIQJ{8dX"
# long password
random_password(20, TRUE)
#> [1] "{(|g9&I(rCmpJk.?&(Hi"