Linux password manipulation in Python

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> From: Gary Herron [mailto:gherron at islandtraining.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 12:30 PM
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This may be more of a Linux than Python question, but I'll try asking
> it here first.
> 
> How does one deal with encrypted passwords on a Linux system which
> uses shadow passwords?
> 
> The 'crypt' module has an example in its documentation of encrypting a
> password (and then comparing to the contents of the /etc/passwd file),
> but that example explicitly states it does not support shadow
> passwords.  And when I use crypt to encrypt a known password, I do not
> get anything like the contents of the /etc/shadow file.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Gary Herron

IIRC, shadow passwords might be using MD5 to hash them,
instead of crypt().

-gus