Java - Password Generator

The following class is used for generating passwords containing 'n' characters.

PwdGenerator.java

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import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Random;

public class PwdGenerator
{
        public static void main(String[] args)
        {
                PwdGenerator pg = new PwdGenerator();
                System.out.println("Generate Password containing 5 characters -> " + pg.generatePassword(5));
                System.out.println("Generate Password containing 12 characters -> " + pg.generatePassword(12));
        }

        /*
         * This method generates a random n digit password, which contains at least one number, lower case alphabet, upper
         * case alphabet and as special character.
         */

        public String generatePassword(int n)
        {

                Random rd = new Random();

                char lowerChars[] = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz".toCharArray();
                char upperChars[] = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ".toCharArray();
                char numbers[] = "0123456789".toCharArray();
                char specialChars[] = "~!@#$%^&*()-_=+[{]}|;:<>/?".toCharArray();

                List<Character> pwdLst = new ArrayList<Character>();
                for (int g = 0; g < 4; g++)
                {
                        for (int z = 0; z < 1; z++)
                        {
                                if (g == 0)
                                {
                                        pwdLst.add(numbers[rd.nextInt(10)]);
                                }
                                else if (g == 1)
                                {
                                        pwdLst.add(lowerChars[rd.nextInt(26)]);
                                }
                                else if (g == 2)
                                {
                                        pwdLst.add(upperChars[rd.nextInt(26)]);
                                }
                                else if (g == 3)
                                {
                                        pwdLst.add(specialChars[rd.nextInt(26)]);
                                }
                        }
                        if (pwdLst.size() == n)
                        {
                                break;
                        }
                        if (g + 1 == 4)
                        {
                                g = (int) Math.random() * 5;

                        }
                }
                StringBuilder password = new StringBuilder();
                Collections.shuffle(pwdLst);
                for (int c = 0; c < pwdLst.size(); c++)
                {
                        password.append(pwdLst.get(c));
                }
                return password.toString();
        }
}

Output:

Generate Password containing 5 characters -> Frl4@
Generate Password containing 12 characters -> EF[<lwmHE%7t
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