checking user passwords

[Davide Alberani]

"Pete Shinners" <pete at visionart.com> wrote:
>
> under unix i'd like to verify a username and password.

I think you've to use pwd and crypt modules.

A really poor example:

#!/usr/bin/python

import pwd, crypt

uname = raw_input('Your username: ')
passwd = raw_input('Password: ')

# Here a KeyError exception may be raised.
pw = pwd.getpwnam(uname)[1]

crp = crypt.crypt(passwd, pw[:2])

if crp == pw:
    print 'Ok!'
else:
    print 'Error!'

+++

I'm not sure it works with shadow password.

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