Portable Authentication? WinNT and UNIX

[charliehubbard76 at yahoo.com]

Hello,

I'm writing a simple, portable server for both WinNT and Unix in python,
and I need to authenticate my users with the system users and passwords.
I know that Unix provides these mechanisms, but what about WinNT?  Does
anyone know how I can authenticate WinNT users thru Win32 api?

It's important that clients encrypt the password and login before
sending it across the network so any info on how I could do that within
python would be helpful.

thanks
charlie


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