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| author | Arthur de Jong <arthur@arthurdejong.org> | 2013-03-30 22:59:57 +0100 |
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| committer | Arthur de Jong <arthur@arthurdejong.org> | 2013-03-30 23:09:30 +0100 |
| commit | 012b18554e5e6a408a11a7157a30c5d068f2d3d1 (patch) | |
| tree | 50c70342106c2674d61b5559f7dfa89dc1f506bc /utils/users.py | |
| parent | d0482fb56654037d01feb0f7a27206aefacf7112 (diff) | |
Initial version of a chsh.ldap utility
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diff --git a/utils/users.py b/utils/users.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..02216d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/utils/users.py @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +# coding: utf-8 + +# users.py - functions for validating the user to change information for +# +# Copyright (C) 2013 Arthur de Jong +# +# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or +# modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public +# License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either +# version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. +# +# This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU +# Lesser General Public License for more details. +# +# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public +# License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software +# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA +# 02110-1301 USA + +import getpass +import os +import pwd +import sys + + +class User(object): + + def __init__(self, username): + self.myuid = os.getuid() + if username: + userinfo = pwd.getpwnam(username) + else: + self.asroot = False + userinfo = pwd.getpwuid(self.myuid) + (self.username, ignore, self.uid, self.gid, self.gecos, self.homedir, + self.shell) = userinfo + # if we are trying to modify another user we should be root + self.asroot = self.myuid != self.uid + + def check(self): + """Check if the user we want to modify is an LDAP user and whether + we may modify the user information.""" + if self.asroot and self.myuid != 0: + print "%s: you may not modify user '%s'.\n" % \ + (sys.argv[0], self.username) + sys.exit(1) + # FIXME: check if the user is an LDAP user + + def get_passwd(self): + """Ask and return a password that is required to change the user.""" + # FIXME: only ask the password if we require it + # (e.g. when root and nslcd has userpwmoddn we don't need to) + return getpass.getpass( + 'LDAP administrator password: ' + if self.asroot else + 'LDAP password for %s: ' % self.username + ) + # FIXME: check if the provided password is valid |