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I’m writing a python program which allow user to login to it. I don’t want to implement my own authentication but would rather take advantage of the OS(linux) mechanism. That is, when the user is trying to sign in my app by inputing username/password pair(which should be a valid OS user), I need to authenticate the pair by the OS. How to do that ? It may need the subprocess module, yet I’ve tried with no luck.
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