pwd module vs Linux shadow passwords

[Siggy Brentrup]

"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh at valinux.com> writes:

> On 02-Apr-2001 Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> > "John W. Baxter" <jwbaxter at olympus.net> writes:
> > 
> >> Using Python 1.5.2 (and earlier) on BSDi, the pwd module's getpw...
> >> functions are able to retrieve the encrypted password (from
> >> /etc/master.passwd) if run as root.
> >> 
> >> Using Python 1.5.2 and 2.1b1 on Linux (RH 6.2), the functions do not
> >> similarly dig the encrypted password out of /etc/shadow.
> >> 
> >> Is the latter action intentional, or is something not being set up
> > 
> > It's the main point of shadow passwords, cf.
> > 
> > http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-07/lw-07-shadowpasswords.html
> > 
> 
> however, one still needs a way to access the password -- i.e. a pop daemon
> written in python.

Nowadays any decent pop daemon should make use of PAM, no need to
access the password database directly from Python.

Siggy

btw: please don't cc me, I'm on the list :-)
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