I ended up using Stephen's suggestion. Thank you all for the help! - Chris
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Create random password Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 18:37:31 +0000 Why wouldn’t you just use this for your middle line which is much easier to read: $a = Get-Random -Minimum 1000 -Maximum 9999 - Stephen From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sean Martin Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 1:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Create random password The ascii range for numbers 0-9 is <48-57>, so something like this? $pass = "your convention" $a = ([char[]](Get-Random -Input (48..57) -Count 4)) -Join '' $password = $pass + $a - Sean On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Christopher Baio <[email protected]> wrote: I need to programmatically auto generate them, but they must follow my convention. The password will need to contain four random digits 0-9. - Chris From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Create random password Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 16:48:06 +0000 Are you looking to programmatically auto generate those passwords? Or just a way to get 300 at a time that you manually add to the CSV file? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of geoff_taylor geoff_taylor Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 11:29 AM To: ntsysadm <[email protected]>; Christopher Baio <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Create random password If read you correctly you already have a script that pulls from a csv. You could just add a new column to the csv and pre-populate that with randomly generated passwords in your favourite spreadsheet program, then modify your script to pull that in as well. Lots of random password formulas for spreadsheets on the web. gt ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Christopher Baio <[email protected]> Date: June 28, 2016 at 10:35 AM I have a powershell script to create user accounts in a specific OU that will pull from a .csv. That script sets variables for the user, one of them being a password that you specify in the script. What I need to do is use a script to create the 300 users, but have a different password for each user. We have a naming convention for the password; just trying to figure out the best way to do this. Any suggestions? Thanks - Chris ----------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you.
