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Subject: Re: User Authentication
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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