From: Jon Lim <snowblink@...>
Date: 2006-11-08T00:54:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Linux authentification check?

ruby-pam might be what you're looking for.

On 07/11/06, Roman Hausner <roman.hausner@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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