Generate

While some secrets have to be manually generated (e.g. by clicking through a graphical user interface), others can be programmatically generated. That’s where the generate command comes in. When you want to generate a random password (or any random sequence of characters for that matter), you can use the generate command:

secrethub generate [options] <namespace>/<repo>[/<dir>]/<secret>

The generate command generates a random string and writes it to the given path.

Arguments

<namespace>/<repo>[/<dir>]/<secret> (string)

The path to write the generated secret to.

Flags

-l, --length (int)

The length of the generated secret. Defaults to 22.

--charset (string)

Define the set of characters to randomly generate a password from. Options are all, alphanumeric, numeric, lowercase, uppercase, letters, symbols and human-readable. Multiple character sets can be combined by supplying them in a comma separated list. Defaults to alphanumeric.

--min (string)

String of the form <charset>:<n>. Ensure that the resulting password contains at least n characters from the given character set. Note that adding constrains reduces the strength of the secret. When possible, avoid any constraints.

-c, --clip (boolean)

Copy the generated value to the clipboard. The clipboard is automatically cleared after 45 seconds.