User Authentication

[Ng Pheng Siong]

According to Lucas Raab <lvraab at earthlink.net>:
> I would like to be able to write a username/password authentication program
> using the SHA or MD5 algorithms. How is the best way going about this and
> making a file where the stored usernames and passwords are kept and
> comparing that to what user types in?

Look at Zope's zpasswd.py. Remember to add salt; Zope's doesn't.


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