user authentication via /etc/passwd|/etc/shadow

Marco Herrn herrn at gmx.net
Mon Apr 5 08:38:50 EDT 2004


On 2004-04-04, Dima Barsky <dima at debian.org> wrote:
> Marco Herrn wrote:
>
>> I want to write a program where I authenticate users via the standard
>> unix system accounts. I didn't find a module providing this
>> functionality. Is there such a module available? If not, how can I
>> achieve this?
>
> You can try the python-pam module:
>
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/python-pam/python-pam_0.4.2-10.1.tar.gz

Thanks, I will try it.


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