Generate Secure Password PowerShell Script

in this blog post, I will share with you a script that will generate a very secure password using PowerShell.

About the script

The script will generate a password with the following criteria:

  • 20 characters password
  • 3 non-alphanumeric characters
  • Minimum two numbers

You can change the above criteria by changing the variables in the script.

Script

Add-Type -AssemblyName 'System.Web'
$passlength = 20
$nonalpha = 3
do {
   $password = [System.Web.Security.Membership]::GeneratePassword($passlength, $nonlpha)
} until ($password -match '\d\d')
"Your random password is: " + $password

You can see the output of the script below.

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