* Added native basic authentication support

[project/luci.git] / libs / core / luasrc / sys.lua

diff --git a/libs/core/luasrc/sys.lua b/libs/core/luasrc/sys.lua
index 6d03f59..80d702b 100644 (file)
--- a/libs/core/luasrc/sys.lua
+++ b/libs/core/luasrc/sys.lua
@@ -263,6 +263,14 @@ end
 user = {}
 -- returns user information to a given uid
 user.getuser = posix.getpasswd
+
+-- checks whether a string matches the password of a certain system user
+function user.checkpasswd(user, password)
+       local account = user.getuser(user)
+       if posix.crypt and account then
+               return (account.passwd == posix.crypt(account.passwd, password))
+       end
+end
        
 -- Changes the user password of given user
 function user.setpasswd(user, pwd)