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I would be happy if this module in one form or another makes
it into  Python; I recently wanted to do user authentication
based on unix passwords but the regular passwd functions
cannot retrieve the password to check against).
As an aside, how does PAM relate to this? I fooled around a
bit with a python pam module, but simply didn't understand
it and couldn't get it to work properly.