Abstraction library for Authentication (module like PEAR Auth)

[Stuart Bishop]

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On 24/03/2004, at 3:24 AM, Anthony_Barker wrote:

> Are there any modules for python that provide abstraction for 
> authentication?
>
> Pear Auth supports
>
> POP3
> LDAP
> SOAP
> passwd file
> SAMBA
> IMAP
> RADIUS
> http://pear.php.net/manual/en/packages.auth.php

If you mean web authentication (which seems to be the scope of Pear),
you would be best off asking in forums specific for the libraries you
are using (Zope, Albatross, Quixote, mod_python, Webware etc.). For
example, a tool such as exUserFolder (which has its own mailing list)
for Zope has a similar scope.

If you don't mean login via form web authentication, I don't see
much point - its just a call to an authenticate(username, password)
method for the protocols you mention. And if you introduce other
protocols such as Kerberos, Passport, biometric, or challenge
response schemes the abstraction would become too complex to be
generally useful.

- --  
Stuart Bishop <stuart at stuartbishop.net>
http://www.stuartbishop.net/
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