User Authentication

[Anurag]

My application is a web based application for both windows and Linux.
The web part is developed using Django. So if Python does not support
it then any support for local sytem account authentication in Django?

I am looking for a common library for both Linux and Windows. Any help
will be Gr8

Regards,
Anurag

On Jun 23, 12:52 pm, Tim Golden <m... at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> On 23/06/2011 06:02, Anurag wrote:
>
> > On Jun 22, 7:01 pm, Adam Tauno Williams<awill... at whitemice.org>
> > wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 06:34 -0700, Anurag wrote:
> >>> Hi All,
>
> >>> I am working on application which needs to do a authentication against
> >>> LDAP, if LDAP not installed then local system account (administrator
> >>> user in windows and root user in Linux). This should work on both
> >>> Windows and Linux.
>
> >> See python-ldap
>
> > I looked into python-ldap, it supports ldap authentication. But I
> > didn't find anything that support local system account authentication
> > when no LDAP both in windows and Linux.
>
> If you want local system authentication on Windows, you're going
> to need something like this:
>
> http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/check-a-users-credential...
>
> > Ond more thing, somebody suggested me to use PAM. Is it a good choice
> > and whether it supports both Windows and Linux? Please let me know
> > which is best to use.
>
> I can't speak for Linux, but I can guarantee that PAM won't
> take you anywhere on Windows :)
>
> TJG