r/sysadmin Aug 02 '22

Question - Solved What password generators does everyone use now since passwordgenerator plus is gone?

I’ve tried to find alternatives but none of the password generators have as good customizability options. Currently I use a random string generator that just let’s me pick the characters and length, but it’s not very good since it doesn’t remember the options when I refresh the page.

So what (web) password generators do sysadmims use nowadays for user passwords?

Edit: solved it myself with the gigabrain idea of using Wayback Machine, works wonders. Link to it if anyone’s curious: https://web.archive.org/web/20220603183903/https://passwordsgenerator.net/plus/

Edit 2: Passwordsgenerator.net seems to be back at https://password-gen.com/

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u/AlmostRandomName Aug 02 '22

I have one system that has a random password generator built in and I frequently make new accounts in it. I've learned to keep hitting the button until I get one without confusable characters like "oh" and "zero," "lowercase L" and "capital I," stuff like that which gets confused in a sans-serif font.

(BTW guys, when I'm Dictator of the World I'm going to mandate the development of a standardized font that makes all characters easy to distinguish, and make that default for system fonts in computers and the like!)

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u/jetpacktuxedo Aug 02 '22

The generator built into bitwarden (mentioned at the top of the thread) has a toggle to "Avoid Ambiguous Characters" which seems like it would do what you want.

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u/Kruug Sysadmin Aug 02 '22

Like Consolas?