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Date:      Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:29:46 +0100
From:      Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
To:        Boris Kochergin <spawk@acm.poly.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: unit testing automated password assignment
Message-ID:  <20091118132946.w7k3l8bm8c4gkook@0x20.net>
In-Reply-To: <4B02F99E.2030205@acm.poly.edu>
References:  <bef9a7920911171056p653714a8j5e0663c5da0e17ef@mail.gmail.com> <4B02F99E.2030205@acm.poly.edu>

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Quoting Boris Kochergin <spawk@acm.poly.edu>:

> Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>> 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?

And if you want to enforce strong passwords, take a look at pam_passwdqc(8).


-- 
Lars Engels
E-Mail: lars.engels@0x20.net

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