WindowsNT user authentication

[Tim Golden]

billie wrote:
> Hi there,
> I would like to submit a username/password pair to a Windows NT
> workstation and find out if it's valid.
> Moreover I would like to get the user's home directory given the
> username.
> Does it is possible to do that by using pywin32 extension?

http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/check-a-users-credentials.html

There are a few caveats (and there are other ways, too). This
one is pretty simple, though.

HTH
TJG