# puppet-passgen

**Repository Path**: mirrors_DataDog/puppet-passgen

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: puppet-passgen
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

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- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-10-22
- **Last Updated**: 2025-10-04

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## README

# Puppet password generator

Have you ever been in situation when you wanted to generate a password with puppet,
but didn't want it to be regenerated at each puppet run?

Exec-based solutions work, but they are not efficient nor flexible. Here is where passgen comes.

# How to use

First of all, you need to include passgen on your puppet master. It's worth to note that all
generated passwords will be saved on master.

```puppet
include passgen
```
or
```puppet
class { 'passgen':
  storage_path => '/tmp/generated_passwords',
}
```

The storage path must already be created by puppet or manually.

Now you can use it on your nodes, for example:
```puppet
rabbitmq_user { 'sa':
  admin    => true,
  password => passgen('rabbitmq_sa'),
```
Or create a password with expiration:
```puppet
rabbitmq_user { 'sa':
  admin    => true,
  password => passgen('rabbitmq_sa', '30 days'),
```

Or store predefined password or its hash:
```puppet
rabbitmq_user { 'sa':
  admin    => true,
  password => passgen('rabbitmq_sa', '', 'd0781a20299a0ac7f2473649cf514abc'),
```

You can even export resource in usual puppet way and use it on another node.