Title: Exclude @ from generated passwords
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Exclude @ from generated passwords

 *  [Modifiedcontent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/modifiedcontent/)
 * (@modifiedcontent)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-from-generated-password/)
 * I noticed my email client turned WP-generated passwords into email links, because
   they contained a ‘@’ symbol. That’s annoying.
 * Is there a way to exclude ‘@’ from password generation?
 * I see the function is here:
 *     ```
       function wp_generate_password($length = 12, $special_chars = true) {
       	$chars = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789';
       	if ( $special_chars )
       		$chars .= '!@#$%^&*()';
   
       	$password = '';
       	for ( $i = 0; $i < $length; $i++ )
       		$password .= substr($chars, wp_rand(0, strlen($chars) - 1), 1);
       	return $password;
       }
       ```
   
 * So can you turn off the special_chars somewhere in an admin area? Or could I 
   turn ‘true’ to ‘false’?
 * I’ll remove the @ anyway…

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