| msg40532 - (view) |
Author: Lance Ellinghaus (ellinghaus) |
Date: 2002-07-10 03:13 |
| Attached is the spwd module. This module provides support for Shadow Passwords on Solaris 2.8. This compliments the nis and pwd modules. This is the only way to gain access to the encrypted passwords when using shadow passwords on Solaris. |
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| msg40533 - (view) |
Author: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz) *  |
Date: 2003-04-12 01:22 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=33168 There doesn't seem to be much interest in this patch. I don't think it reaches a wide-enough audience, therefore, I'm rejecting it. If there is broader support (many people are interested in seeing shadow password support in the core), we can add it later. I think it would be best to provide this as a third-party module. |
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| msg40534 - (view) |
Author: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling) * |
Date: 2004-01-13 15:32 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=11375 As it happens, I was hunting for Python shadow password support and came across this patch. The module isn't Solaris-specific, and would be necessary on Linux, too. However, the interface for getting shadow passwords doesn't seem to be standardized; see http://www.unixpapa.com/incnote/passwd. html for a list. (The Single Unix spec doesn't seem to mention shadow passwords.) One question is whether we want a new module for this, or if the functions should be in the existing pwd module. |
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| msg40535 - (view) |
Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) * |
Date: 2004-08-22 16:38 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=21627 If we eventually want to support all the shadow passwort APIs, we should make this a separate module - with that approach, building spwd can might fail without causing a failure to compile pwd. Unfortunately, the patch is still incomplete: there is no change to setup.py, and no documentation change. Are there any volunteers interesting in completing it? If not, I'm going to close it again. Anybody hunting for such a module will still be able to find it. |
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| msg40536 - (view) |
Author: Irmen de Jong (irmen)  |
Date: 2005-01-16 15:48 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=129426 I would be happy if this module in one form or another makes it into Python; I recently wanted to do user authentication based on unix passwords but the regular passwd functions cannot retrieve the password to check against). As an aside, how does PAM relate to this? I fooled around a bit with a python pam module, but simply didn't understand it and couldn't get it to work properly. |
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| msg40537 - (view) |
Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) * |
Date: 2005-01-17 06:02 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=21627 irmen, are you willing to complete this patch? |
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| msg40538 - (view) |
Author: Irmen de Jong (irmen) |
Date: 2005-01-17 21:03 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=129426 Martin, yes I will give it a try. |
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| msg40539 - (view) |
Author: Irmen de Jong (irmen) |
Date: 2005-01-20 21:31 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=129426 I've attached my new version of the patch (files are marked New Patch). I've updated the extension module itself to 'modern' standards (i.e. making it look as similar to pwdmodule.c as possible, including the tuple-like result object). I'm not too sure how this module compiles on different platforms, but I've added preprocessor checks for the relevant system calls. This module needs to be tested on different systems (I've developed it on Linux). There is no regression test yet. |
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| msg40540 - (view) |
Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) * |
Date: 2005-01-23 09:28 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=21627 Thanks for the patch. Applied as configure 1.468 configure.in 1.481 pyconfig.h.in 1.106 setup.py 1.212 Makefile.deps 1.123 lib.tex 1.237 libpwd.tex 1.15 libspwd.tex 1.1 NEWS 1.1231 Setup.dist 1.49 spwdmodule.c 1.1 |
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