unit testing automated password assignment

[Lars Engels]

Quoting Boris Kochergin <spawk at 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 at 0x20.net
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