Question

Is there a setting which can be used to specify which characters to use in an autogenerated password?

Our current passwords are a bit of a mess of special characters and we’d like to tidy them up a bit in future.

Answer 1

There’s a Sitecore.SecurityModel.Cryptography.PasswordGenerator class, which is used to assign random passwords to the security accounts installed by Sitecore Packager. It contains a property Exclusions, which is a string of characters to exclude while generating the password.

So, it seems you can achieve what you need like this:

var generator = new Sitecore.SecurityModel.Cryptography.PasswordGenerator();
generator.Exclusions = @"%|)(";
generator.Generate();