Passwords / PAM

[Mats Wichmann]

Turns out I need a way to deal with prompting a user for a password
and having it be encoded in the proper manner; some of the target
systems are using crypt-style password encoding and some are using
MD5.  I'm presuming I could use PAM for this... does anyone know of a
Python PAM module?  I didn't locate one in a brief search, but I'm
suspecting there is one out there...

TIA,

Mats