checking user passwords

[Moshe Zadka]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Pete Shinners wrote:

> under unix i'd like to verify a username and password.
> i'm not even sure how to do this in any language, but
> i really want to do it with python.
> 
> so how do i check if a users password is correct?

Check out the "pwd" and "crypt" modules.
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