On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Oltmans <rolf.oltm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm writing a program in which I will ask users to enter user name and > password once only. It's a console based program that will run on
In general you don't store the password, but a "hash" of it. Then when the user logs-in, you hash it and compare the result with the stored hash. About hash, use sha, look here: http://docs.python.org/library/hashlib.html#module-hashlib > Windows XP. Actually, I'm trying to provide the similar functionality > as "Remember me" thing in browsers. For that, I will need to store > user name and passwords on the disk. I don't have a background in I don't understand how this is supposed to work. "Remember me" in browser doesn't store passwords. > using? Moreover, I cannot use a whole library to do that due to > certain issues. However, I can use like 1--2 files that will be > shipped along with the main script. Any ideas? Any help will be really > appreciated. Thanks. The library I pointed out before is built-in. Best, SB. -- Sebastián Bassi. Diplomado en Ciencia y Tecnología. Book: Python for bioinformatics. http://tinyurl.com/biopython Vendo isla: http://www.genesdigitales.com/isla What's new in Python 3: http://tinyurl.com/5cd89r Curso Biologia molecular para programadores: http://tinyurl.com/2vv8w6 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
