#genpw (in Swift)

This is a port of my genpw program from Go to Swift. I'm doing this to learn some Swift, not to provide a 1:1 port. Nevertheless, aside from a few differences in command line flags, it now has feature parity with the Go version.

Passwords are, by default, chosen from the union of three character classes: upper-case letters, lower-case letters, and digits.

(Previous versions did not use 0, O, I, l, or 1; this was also the behavior of the Go version. This was to avoid confusion when passwords are displayed in sans-serif fonts. I no longer consider that important, so this version uses all letters and digits.)

Options can be given to omit any one or any two of these character classes. For instance, you can omit uppercase letters and digits by passing --no-upper --no-digit to genpw. This will return a password composed only of lowercase letters.

Passwords are guaranteed to contain at least one of each selected character class. The default length is 16. genpw will create a password of any length greater than or equal to the number of character classes selected.

If the password length is less than or equal to the total number of characters selected, genpw will not repeat characters within the generated password.

#Installation

This package targets Swift 5.2/Xcode 11 and higher. To build universal macOS binaries, Swift 5.3/Xcode 12 is required.

On Linux, make sure you've installed Swift 5.2 or higher from the Swift download site.

#Single-architecture build

Run swift build -c release in the top level directory. Copy the generated .build/release/genpw binary to wherever you like.

#Universal build

Run swift build -c release --arch arm64 --arch x86_64 in the top level directory. Copy the generated .build/apple/Products/Release/genpw binary to wherever you like.

#Usage

$ genpw --help
USAGE: genpw [--length <length>] [--no-upper] [--no-lower] [--no-digit]

OPTIONS:
  -l, --length <length>   Length to generate. (default: 16)
  -U, --no-upper          Exclude uppercase letters.
  -u, --no-lower          Exclude lowercase letters.
  -d, --no-digit          Exclude digits.
  -h, --help              Show help information.

$ genpw
h6ECtbDZPnRddHV7
$ genpw --length 8
XdWod8f8
$ genpw --length 64
QhESpeyPDidxV9kFNCrJqeMa4XUYbET4B3s5oGA8kYsV6XwDKHrCL7wojGZm9gj5
$ genpw --length 0
Error: Length must be at least 3.
$ genpw --no-lower
387HNFDEUW4YGMZA
$ genpw --no-upper --length 8
hcsym6tj
$ genpw --no-lower --no-upper --length 32
92992759356835354563826487673794
$ genpw --no-lower --no-upper --no-digit
Error: Cannot exclude all three character classes.

#License

genpw is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.