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

[Dima Barsky]

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

Regards,
Dima.