From 6e45ea4200aaa5870bdab82709a67c43b9bde081 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Henrik=20tom=20W=C3=B6rden?= <h.tomwoerden@indiscale.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2021 13:05:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ENH: add function that generates passwords
---
src/caosdb/common/administration.py | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/caosdb/common/administration.py b/src/caosdb/common/administration.py
index dff461e7..450f8de1 100644
--- a/src/caosdb/common/administration.py
+++ b/src/caosdb/common/administration.py
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@
"""missing docstring."""
+import re
+import string
+import random
from caosdb.common.utils import xml2str
from caosdb.connection.connection import get_connection
from caosdb.exceptions import (EntityDoesNotExistError, HTTPClientError,
@@ -108,6 +111,19 @@ def get_server_property(key):
return get_server_properties()[key]
+def get_password(length):
+ """ creates a random password that fulfills the security requirements """
+ sample_letters = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + "!#$%*+-/:;?_"
+ password = ''.join((random.choice(sample_letters) for i in range(length)))
+
+ while not re.match(r"(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*\d)(?=.*[\W_]).{8,}",
+ password):
+ password = ''.join((random.choice(sample_letters)
+ for i in range(length)))
+
+ return password
+
+
def _retrieve_user(name, realm=None, **kwargs):
con = get_connection()
try:
--
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