User Authentication

[Lucas Raab]

I would like to be able to write a username/password authentication program
using the SHA or MD5 algorithms. How is the best way going about this and
making a file where the stored usernames and passwords are kept and
comparing that to what user types in?

Many thanks

 

[Paul Rubin]

I would like to be able to write a username/password authentication program
using the SHA or MD5 algorithms. How is the best way going about this and
making a file where the stored usernames and passwords are kept and
comparing that to what user types in?

Umm. Be a little careful about this. Can you say more about the
specific application?

 

[Ng Pheng Siong]

I would like to be able to write a username/password authentication program
using the SHA or MD5 algorithms. How is the best way going about this and
making a file where the stored usernames and passwords are kept and
comparing that to what user types in?

Look at Zope's zpasswd.py. Remember to add salt; Zope's doesn't.