Re: Testing checkpassword on FreeBSD

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 09:18:08PM +0000, Jarrad wrote:
> I'm having some trouble getting checkpassword to work; tests indicate 
> it's not working. I'm running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE, and installed 
> checkpassword from the ports collection.

> post# sh
> # printf "%s\0%s\0%s\0" username password 1073898264 | 
> /usr/local/bin/checkpassword id 3<&0
> # perl -e 'printf "%s\0%s\0%s\0", "username", "password", "1073898264"' 
> | /usr/local/bin/checkpassword id 3<&0
> # echo "username\0password\01073898264\0" | 
> /usr/local/bin/checkpassword id 3<&0
> # exit
> 
> (I've replaced my actual username and password with "username" and 
> "password" above, but did use them during the actual tests. 1073898264 
> is the timestamp for January 12th 2004, 9:04:24 [GMT])
> 
> id isn't run, which indicates checkpassword isn't working.

I just tried it myself on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE, and it works exactly as
advertised. Are you sure you're actually using a correct user name and
password? Is id in your PATH? What's the output if you run "echo $?"
immediately after running the test?

Chris