Authenticate against PAM
Provides an authenticate function that will allow the caller to authenticate a user against the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) on the system.
Implemented using ctypes, so no compilation is necessary.
Wrapper class for pam_conv structure
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Wrapper class for pam_message structure
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Wrapper class for pam_response structure
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Authenticate via pam
Returns True if the given username and password authenticate for the given service. Returns False otherwise
username: the username to authenticate
password: the password in plain text