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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: unit testing automated password assignment
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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).


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Lars Engels
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