Password Retriever Help

# Changing the Random Password Generator template

The Random Password Generator creates new passwords based on a dynamic template.

1. Choose Preferences from the Password Retriever menu (Mac) or Edit menu (Windows).
2. Click the Security icon on the toolbar.
3. Enter a new template in the text field.

The template for the Random Password Generator uses variables to determine the pattern in which passwords are generated.

### Variable | ### Effect
[!] | becomes one of: !@#$%^&*()
[#] | becomes a number between 0 and 9
[a] | becomes a lowercase letter
[A] | becomes a capital letter
[@] | becomes any random letter, number, or one of !@#$%^&*()

Use [5-A] to return a random set of five uppercase letters, [11-#] to return eleven random numbers, and so forth. To return a random number of characters, specify the range for the length count (ie. [1:9-a]). This will return anywhere between one and nine random lowercase letters.
Any character which is not one of the above special characters will be treated literally. For example, a template like: [2-@]Adam[A][4-#] could return a value like: $&AdamX1984

## See also

Random Password Generation