Auth API in Python

[Jan Dries]

Peter Maas wrote:

> Is there such a thing in Python or attempts to build one? Something
> like JAAS for Java?

Depending on what you are looking for, you may want to look at Pubcookie 
(www.pubcookie.org). It is only useful if you're trying to secure access 
to web applications, but it does a fine job at that. It's not written in 
Python, but you never really need to interact with it directly, as it 
takes authentication completely out of the application.
It has pluggable authentication methods (which can be a Python script), 
and works well on Unix and Windows, with both Apache and IIS.

Regarding,
Jan