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Subject: unit testing automated password assignment
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I have a script that automatically creates a user and sets their password:

echo $3 | sudo pw useradd $1 -m -c "$2" -s tcsh -h0

and by my employer's policy I need to unit test... my question is
how... the checking for user existence and such is easy but how do I
test that the password is correct?