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Re: User Authentication

Date 2011-06-23 17:07 +0100
From Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk>
Subject Re: User Authentication
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On 23/06/2011 16:07, Anurag wrote:
> 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

The two systems are sufficiently different in this kind of area
that any "common library" will basically consist of code like
this (hand-wavey):

<code>

import sys

if sys.platform.startswith ("win"):
   import win32security
   def is_valid_user (username, password):
     if win32security.LogonUser ( ... )

elif sys.platform.startswith ("linux"):
   import pam
   def is_valid_user (username, password):
     if pam.validate_user (...)

</code>

It's possible someone's put something together already,
but I'm not aware of anything.

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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