[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This may only be tangentially related to Python, but since I am coding > a password authentication system in Python, I thought I would ask here. > > In Linux (and presumably other *NIX systems that support it), when > shadow passwords are enabled, the actual password is not stored. > Instead an encrypted version is stored. Then, to authenticate the > password, the system re-encrypts the user's input to see if it matches > the stored, encrypted version. >
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that all Linux passwords are encrypted whether you enable shadow passwords or not. I believe that when you enable shadow passwords, the encrypted passwords are stored in a file other than 'passwd'. Is this not correct? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
