http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/authentication-python/2013-03-11T12:40:10-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2013-03-11T12:40:10-07:00James Millshttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4167757/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578489-system-authentication-against-etcshadow-or-etcpass/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578489 by <a href="/recipes/users/4167757/">James Mills</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/authentication/">authentication</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/password/">password</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/system/">system</a>). </p> <p>Sometimes it's useful to perform System Authentication against a Local System using the /etc/shadow or /etc/passwd password databases. This recipe provides a simple function that does exactly that.</p>

2012-07-18T13:30:10-07:00Colin Higgshttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4182866/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578217-cosign-handler/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578217 by <a href="/recipes/users/4182866/">Colin Higgs</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/authentication/">authentication</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/cosign/">cosign</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/handler/">handler</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/urllib/">urllib</a>). </p> <p>Handler (python 3.x urllib.request style) for web pages where cosign authentication is required.</p> <p>See <a href="http://weblogin.org/">http://weblogin.org/</a> for details of the cosign authentication system.</p>

2011-10-05T15:29:44-07:00Jesse Davishttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4175348/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577893-securely-processing-twilio-requests-from-tornado/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 577893 by <a href="/recipes/users/4175348/">Jesse Davis</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/authentication/">authentication</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/http/">http</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/https/">https</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/nginx/">nginx</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/telephony/">telephony</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/tornado/">tornado</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/twilio/">twilio</a>). </p> <p>Twilio is a telephony service that POSTs to a callback URL on your server and asks you what to do when it receives phone calls or SMSes to the numbers you rent from Twilio. But securing your communications with Twilio can be complex if you're using Tornado behind Nginx. This shows you how to protect your Twilio callback URL with HTTP Authentication, request-signing, and (optionally) SSL.</p> <p>I'm using HTTP Authentication code from Kevin Kelley, and I wrote the rest myself.</p>

2010-12-29T22:15:14-08:00Andrew Grigorevhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172098/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577523-eap-md5-8021x-supplicant/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 577523 by <a href="/recipes/users/4172098/">Andrew Grigorev</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/authentication/">authentication</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/eap/">eap</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/md5/">md5</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/networking/">networking</a>). </p> <p>802.1X EAP protocol supplicant (see RFC3748), supporting only MD5-Challenge authentication type. Linux only.</p>

2010-05-20T20:39:50-07:00Berendhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173891/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577217-routines-for-programmatically-authenticating-with-/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 577217 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173891/">Berend</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/auth/">auth</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/authentication/">authentication</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/gae/">gae</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/google/">google</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/http/">http</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sessions/">sessions</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>This takes two calls, one to the ClientLogin service of Google Accounts, and then a second to the login frontend of App Engine.</p> <p>User credentials are provided to the first, which responds with a token. Passing that token to the _ah/login GAE endpoint then gives the cookie that can be used to make further authenticated requests.</p>