"Philippe C. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jeff, > > 1- I cannot find getpwent in the documentation
getpwent is a Unix library call. For python, you want the pwd module. The docs are <URL: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-pwd.html >. > 2- crypt will not work if the system does not have shadow pw Rubbish. crypt doesn't know anything about passord files. It just knows how to encrypt a password. It's up to you to get the password attempt from the user, and the encrypted password from the password file (or the shadow password file). The pwd module doesn't deal with shadow passwords. Maybe you meant "system does have shadow pw". But it's pwd that doesn't work, not crypt - and that depends on the system. For instance: bhuda% cat tp.py #!/usr/bin/env python import pwd, os p = pwd.getpwnam(os.environ['USER']) print p[1] bhuda% ./tp.py * But: bhuda# ./tp.py $1$cKJbUtaY$y.e7GRjo8ePxgiBzskyRX0 I.e. - as me, the pwd routines won't return passwords. As root, it returns the encrypted password. > 3- Even as root I get "Operation not permitted" using setuid and setgid ... > but I assume it is because I cannot get 1 and/or 2 to work. They shouldn't have anything to do with it. Are you sure the process is running as root? For instance, most modern Unices won't honor the the setuid bit on script executables. You have to write a setuidj wrapper that runs the interpreter with the appropriate privileges. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
