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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:52:49 +0100
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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