From: Roman Hausner <roman.hausner@...>
Date: 2006-11-08T00:48:27+09:00
Subject: Linux authentification check?

Is there a library or some other way to simply check whether a
user/password combination is valid for the Linux machine I am
running on? No need to actually switch the current user, change
the effective group or user id etc. All I want is to make sure that
the username exists and that the password is valid for that user.
(I want to allow only those users to use a certain service running
within a restricted server that have a userid defined on that machine)


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