This is a LaunchBar 6 Action to generate secure passwords and copy them to the system clipboard.

It uses the KeePass Password Generator to allow you to specify a character set for the generated password. This functionality is provided by an included copy of the keepass-password-generator RubyGem – no external dependencies are required.

Installation

Grab “Generate.Password.zip” from the latest release at https://github.com/itspriddle/generate-password.lbaction/releases. Unzip and open “Generate Password.lbaction” to install it.

Usage

To generate a password, invoke LaunchBar and select “Generate Password”. After running the action, the newly generated password is copied to the system clipboard.

By default, this Action will generate a 20 character password using L{9}d{9}s{9} as the KeePass character set. This will generate a password with 9 mixes-case letters, 9 digits, and 2 special characters.

To specify a different character set, press Space after selecting the Action from LaunchBar and type in the desired character set, eg: S{30}.

Preferences

If you want to use a different default character set, you can create or edit ~/Library/Application Support/LaunchBar/Action Support/io.github.itspriddle.LaunchBar.action.GeneratePassword/Preferences.plist and set defaultFormat.

For example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>defaultFormat</key>
	<string>S{30}</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/itspriddle/generate-password.lbaction

License

MIT License - see LICENSE in this repository.

Tags: LaunchBar, Passwords, Ruby, Security, macOS