internal/functions/Get-RandomPassword.ps1
|
function Get-RandomPassword { # generates a random secure password of a specified length [Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessageAttribute("PSAvoidUsingConvertToSecureStringWithPlainText", "")] Param ( $Length = 15, [switch]$AsPlainText ) $vocabulary = @{ Group1 = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' Group2 = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' Group3 = '1234567890' Group4 = '!#$%&()*+,-./:;<=>?[\]^_{|}~' } $pwdPool = @() # get at least one of each symbols 1..4 | Foreach-Object { $pwdPool += $vocabulary."Group$_".Substring((Get-Random -Minimum 0 -Maximum $vocabulary["Group$_"].Length), 1) } # now get remaining random symbols if ($Length -gt 4) { 5..$Length | Foreach-Object { $group = Get-Random -Minimum 1 -Maximum 5 $pwdPool += $vocabulary."Group$group".Substring((Get-Random -Minimum 0 -Maximum $vocabulary["Group$group"].Length), 1) } } $password = (($pwdPool | Sort-Object { Get-Random }) -join '').Substring(0, $Length) if ($AsPlainText) { return $password } else { ConvertTo-SecureString $password -AsPlainText -Force } } |