pam

PAM module for python

Provides an authenticate function that will allow the caller to authenticate a user against the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) on the system.

Implemented using ctypes, so no compilation is necessary.

Functions

f authenticate(username, password, service='login') ...

Returns True if the given username and password authenticate for the given service. Returns False otherwise

username: the username to authenticate

password: the password in plain text

service: the PAM service to authenticate against.
Defaults to 'login'

See the source for more information.