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  emp00 > 2024-05-23 12:28

  Dear QAP community & Jean,
  
  I would like to create a snippet generating a (strong, thus at least 10 characters and including upper/lowercase letters, numbers and special characters) password. I found this: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-i...rs/#random
  
  ... but this is not 100% what I want - does anybody have a ready-to-use placeholder for QAP generating a password with above rules? Thanks so much! :-)

• RE: Snippet for generating random password

  dr Winchell > 2024-05-23 12:44

  Here are a couple of posts from the AutoHotkey forum that may do what you're looking for:
  
  https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewto...83&t=95321
  https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewto...76&t=89783
  
  -Dale

• RE: Snippet for generating random password

  Jean Lalonde > 2024-05-23 13:44

  Yes, you could do it with more control using one of the pieces of code pointed by Dale, if you know AutoHotkey.
  
  In QAP, the {RandomNumber:x|y} placeholder "is replaced with an integer number between integers x and y". It would not include the letters or special characters often required for strong passwords.
  
  Another option would be to use the {GUID} placeholder that is replaced with a random string of 32 letters and numbers. With the snippet in Macro mode, you could shorten it with the {Backspace} command and add a punctuation character if this is required. The command would be something like "{GUID}{Backspace 17}!". This would make a pretty string password.

• RE: Snippet for generating random password

  emp00 > 2024-05-24 05:24

  Thanks guys - I have now implemented an AHK hotkey doing a "SendText" using a simple AHK RandomPassword-Generator function. This gives me full flexibility on the length and character set and it's (hopefully) completely random and thus very strong. Thanks for your suggestions!
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