User Authentication

[Anurag]

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.

Which library I should use for that.

Regards,
Anurag

 

[Tim Golden]

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.

Which library I should use for that.

python-ldap seems the obvious choice:


http://www.python-ldap.org/

TJG

 

[Adam Tauno Williams]

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

 

[Anurag]

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.

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.

Regards,
Anurag

 

[Tim Golden]

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

 

[Anurag]

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

Regards,
Anurag

 

[Tim Golden]

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

 

[Michael Ströder]

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

Doesn't Django provide an abstraction layer for accessing differnt
authentication backends? I guess you have to write/use two different
authentication modules for the two different mechanisms.

A quick search looks promising:

http://www.google.com/search?q=django+ldap+authentication

Ciao, Michael.