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Re: User Authentication

Date 2011-06-23 08:52 +0100
From Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk>
Subject Re: User Authentication
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On 23/06/2011 06:02, Anurag wrote:
> On Jun 22, 7:01 pm, Adam Tauno Williams<awill...@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-credentials.html

> 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

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User Authentication Anurag <anurag26@gmail.com> - 2011-06-22 06:34 -0700
  Re: User Authentication Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2011-06-22 15:00 +0100
  Re: User Authentication Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org> - 2011-06-22 10:01 -0400
    Re: User Authentication Anurag <anurag26@gmail.com> - 2011-06-22 22:02 -0700
      Re: User Authentication Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2011-06-23 08:52 +0100
        Re: User Authentication Anurag <anurag26@gmail.com> - 2011-06-23 08:07 -0700
          Re: User Authentication Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2011-06-23 17:07 +0100
          Re: User Authentication Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com> - 2011-06-24 09:23 +0200

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