Jan Dittberner
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work on documentation * documentation updates (addresses #13) * make stmtcreator execute as __main__ only git-svn-id: file:///home/www/usr01/svn/gnuviechadmin/trunk@254 a67ec6bc-e5d5-0310-a910-815c51eb3124
84 lines
2.7 KiB
Python
84 lines
2.7 KiB
Python
# -*- python -*-
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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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#
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# Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 by Jan Dittberner.
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#
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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#
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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# General Public License for more details.
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#
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
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# USA.
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#
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# Version: $Id$
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"""This module provides some functions for password handling."""
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import crypt, crack, random
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_pwchars = []
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for _pair in (('0', '9'), ('A', 'Z'), ('a', 'z')):
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_pwchars.extend(range(ord(_pair[0]), ord(_pair[1])))
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_saltchars = [_char for _char in _pwchars]
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for _char in "-+/*_@":
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_pwchars.append(ord(_char))
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def generatepassword(minlength = 8, maxlength = 12):
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"""Generates a new random password with a given length.
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The generated password has a length between minlength and maxlength.
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Keyword arguments:
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minlength -- minimum length of the generated password
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maxlength -- the maximum length of the generated password
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"""
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return "".join([chr(letter) for letter in \
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random.sample(_pwchars,
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random.randint(minlength, maxlength))])
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def checkpassword(password):
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"""Checks the password with cracklib.
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The password is returned if it is good enough. Otherwise None is
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returned.
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Arguments:
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password -- the password to check
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"""
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try:
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return crack.VeryFascistCheck(password)
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except ValueError, ve:
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print "Weak password:", ve
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return None
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def md5_crypt_password(password):
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"""Hashes the given password with MD5 and a random salt value.
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A password hashed with MD5 and a random salt value is returned.
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Arguments:
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password -- the password to hash
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"""
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salt = "".join([chr(letter) for letter in \
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random.sample(_saltchars, 8)])
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return crypt.crypt(password, '$1$' + salt)
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def get_pw_tuple(password = None):
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"""Gets a valid (password, hashvalue) tuple.
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The tuple consists of a password and a md5 hash of the same
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password. If a password is given it is checked and if it is too
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weak replaced by a generated one.
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"""
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while password == None or checkpassword(password) == None:
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password = generatepassword()
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return (password, md5_crypt_password(password))
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