Option to reduce minimum length of Generator output (passwords and passphrases)

Feature Requests Password Manager
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The minimum length of password generated from the password generator is 5 characters. But I frequently use the password generator to generate PINs, which are typically of 4 digits, by just selecting numbers in the options. It would be helpful if the password generator can allow generating passwords of less than 5 characters [numbers in my case].

Same case with the passphrase generator. The minimum words it can generate is 3. While I use the passphrase generator to generate a word to add as a salt to my self created password. It would be helpful if the passphrase generator can allow generating passphrases of 1 words to use as addition to my password.

I know we can just select part of the generated output to use as needed but then my mind gets confused as to which 4 numbers to select or which word to select. And it should be a very simple task to allow selecting smaller number.

I know reducing the minimum number of characters or words carries the risk that some users will create even shorter passwords. But this seems to punish other users to keep not so knowledgeable users safe [probably].

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I agree with your request. I did modify the title to be more clear (old title was: “Minimum length of password generator output”; new title: “Option to reduce minimum length of password generator output”) .

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@Stronuk If you would be for a minimum of 4 characters for “passwords”, then there is an existing feature request for that: Allow for 4 character numeric "passwords" for PIN creation

Otherwise, what would be your minimum length for passwords (and passphrases)?

(actually, I think I would be for “1” for both…)

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Thanks for linking that post. My search did not bring up any posts regarding minimum password length from password generator. I would suggest the new limit be kept 1 for both password and passphrase. No point in limiting the use of the software artificially.

Also, the point that it will reduce security is not Bitwarden’s lookout. It is up to the website / application requesting the user to create a password to enforce password complexity requirements.

Enabling this option I can use a random number or symbol as the separator between the words in a passphrase. But for this I need to be able to generate single character random numbers / symbols from the password tab.

Expanding on this, the password generator can have custom field syntax based password generator. So users can define their own custom fields in the password generator and it will allow us to mix and match elements to create custom passwords in desired formats. eg. <1word><2numbers><2symbols> or <8alphabets><2numbers>

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To reflect, that passphrases are also meant, I changed your title slightly. (yours was “Option to reduce minimum length of password generator output”)