Public/New-B42Password.ps1
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function New-B42Password { <# .SYNOPSIS Generates a reasonable secure password. .DESCRIPTION The New-B42Password function creates a GUID, splits it by the hyphen charater, then randomly capitalizes the blocks and reassemables them with random special character seperators. .EXAMPLE New-B42Password .NOTES The function verifies the output before returning. #> [OutputType('System.String')] [CmdletBinding()] param () begin {} process { $newPassword = "" do { Write-Verbose "B42 - Generating new password." $specialChars = "!@#$%^&*-+=`|\(){}[]:;`"'<>,.?/" foreach ($part in ([guid]::NewGuid()).Guid.Split('-')) { $rand = Get-Random -Minimum 0 -Maximum ($specialChars.Length - 1) if ($rand % 2 -eq 0) { $newPassword += $part.ToUpper() } else { $newPassword += $part.ToLower() } $newPassword += $specialChars[$rand] $specialChars = $specialChars.Remove($rand, 1) } } while (!(($newPassword -match "\W") -and ($newPassword -match "\d") -and ($newPassword -match "[A-Z]") -and ($newPassword -match "[a-z]"))) $newPassword } end {} } |