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Yoel Macia Delgado
Asked: 2020-07-28 04:49:46 +0800 CST 2020-07-28 04:49:46 +0800 CST

Django Password Generator

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Hello recently I have to generate a random and unique password for each user that I have in the Model.User.

I have tried with Python to generate numbers and letters with the libraries randomand string.

import random, string
pass = random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits) for i in range(10)

But I think this is not efficient at all.

Django provide any solution?

python

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Django provides solutions to the problem, researching and testing, I think the safest and most efficient is Get Random String because the string is encrypted with a sha-256 algorithm before returning it, here is an example with some code.

    We can pass the length of the password we want as an argument.

    >>> from django.utils.crypto import get_random_string
>>> password = get_random_string(length=32)
>>> password
u'rRVXe32N27g3aHoAS218KdVaqPSD12fp'

    And we can also pass as an argument the characters that we allow so that it makes a combination of them.

    >>> from django.utils.crypto import get_random_string
>>> password = get_random_string(length=32,allowed_chars='ABCD')
>>> password
u'CCCAAAABDACDBCCAACAABCDDCCAABBAD'

    The other solution provided by Django is Make Random Password , which allows you to do the same thing, but what happens is that it does not encrypt it. Import the BaseUserManager and also accept the parameters lengthand allowed_charsfor the length and characters allowed.

    >>> from django.contrib.auth.base_user import BaseUserManager
>>> password = BaseUserManager().make_random_password(45)
>>> password
u'jypVaXuw9Uw8mD4CXtEhtj2E4DVYx23YTMwy8jGTKsreR'

    If we need something stronger, Django provides Make Password , which converts us from plain text to a hashed password directly.

    >>> from django.contrib.auth.hashers import make_password
>>> password = make_password('')
>>> password
u'pbkdf2_sha256$30000$JuKXdW3shCjL$PsPJX7Zale5JUBkWpIJI/+QlsuVWhz9Q+GQWVtTpQ/Y='
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