unit testing automated password assignment

[Boris Kochergin]

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?
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Have a look at http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd.html. A FreeBSD port is 
available in security/checkpassword.

-Boris