cmspw 1.1.2

generates passwords for CMS

EUA

EUA rules implemented in this script are:

• Must start with a letter

• At least one number (0-9)

• At least one Lowercase alphabetic character (a-z)

• At least one Upper Case alphabetic character (A-Z)

• MUST BE EXACTLY 8 characters long

• May not include “punctuation characters” (undocumented)

Rules NOT implemented:

• Cannot include your EUA UserID and any part of your name

• Cannot include any word/word portion prohibited by the defined CMS dictionary

• Password can’t contain 50% characters from previous password

• Be different from the previous 24 passwords

CloudVPN

CloudVPN rules implemented in this script are:

• Cannot contain keyboard walks of 3 or more consecutive keyboard keys in a row (e.g. asd, zaq, 123, was, pol, ser, gyu, bhj, 9o0, p;[, etc.)

• Password length greater than 15 characters.

• Contain 3 out of 4 the following:

  • 1 digits (0-9).

  • 1 symbols (!, @, #, $, %, *, etc.).

  • 1 uppercase English letters (A-Z).

  • 1 lowercase English letters (a-z).

Rules NOT implemented:

• Password must differ from previous password by 24 password(s).

• Password must be at least 1day(s) since last password change.

Installation

You need python3:

brew install python3
python3 -m pip install cmspw

Usage

Cryptographically random alphanumeric strings are generated, printing the first that complies with the EUA/CloudVPN ruleset to the standard output.

$ python3 -m cmspw --help
usage: cmspw [-h] --ruleset RULESET [--length NUM]

generates passwords for CMS

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --ruleset RULESET, -r RULESET
                        rule set to validate against. can be one of ['eua', 'vpn'].
  --length NUM, -l NUM  password length. if ruleset is 'eua', this is ignored.
$ python3 -m cmspw --ruleset eua
qJbcNJ2Y
$ python3 -m cmspw --ruleset vpn --length 24
4H+-X^#XV(8'&wB5ZNn'H%>q

Development

You need poetry:

brew install poetry

Inside the project directory you can enter a virtual environment like so:

poetry install && poetry shell