Moonlight Coding
In the last post, Generating Random Passwords 2 – Controlling the Character Pool , we were able to customize the character pool for passwords on the fly. Since we are talking about passwords for one piece of software to talk to another software, the character pool does not need to have characters that are on our keyboard.
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In the last post, Generating Random Passwords, we were able to create a random password of a length that we chose. However, we could not modify the character pool without modifying the source code.
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As a programmer, I will often need a password for a service account. A service account being an account that a computer program uses, and not a human. As such, the password can be long, and does not exactly need to be type-able.
I tried looking online for a random password generator, and none of them, I felt, were up to the task of creating passwords for my service accounts.
This post builds on Rolling the Dice, using the code from there.
Sometimes, as a DM/GM, I want to be able to roll “biased” dice. Sometimes biased heavier, sometimes biased lighter.
How do we go about making a weighted die programmatically?
Be me, someone whom like to play pen-and-paper RPGs, like Dungeons & Dragons or GURPS.
Also, be me, avid computer programmer.
I’ve created dice rolling programs in quite a few languages, C#, Java, and a few others.
Being a web programmer, my strongest language is PHP. I also needed to learn the workings of Symfony Console, a PHP package that let’s you run PHP applications in the console.