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Tue Apr 3 16:46:16 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/088265.html

A couple of questions, how does one access PAM through python,
and does Pam handle the setting of all the other password
information fields in shadow?

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:30:26PM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> > however, one still needs a way to access the password -- i.e. a pop daemon
> > written in python.
> 
> Nowadays any decent pop daemon should make use of PAM, no need to
> access the password database directly from Python.
> 

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