nonces.verifyUser

nonces.verifyUser(string, string) => bool

Test authentication with an encrypted password.

Arguments
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* username string (your user account on the server)
* encrypted_password string (lowercase hexadecimal, length 32)

Return value
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* success boolean (or XML-RPC fault with error message)

Password encryption
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To encrypt the password, you must first generate a nonce and get
the encryption algorithm and salt (see nonces.challengeUser). Then
you can compute the encrypted password like this::

    encrypted_password = md5(sha1(salt + password) + nonce)

If requested by the challenge, you must use md5 rather than sha1
for the inner hash. The result of each hash function call must be
formatted as lowercase hexadecimal. The calls to
nonces.challengeUser and nonces.verifyUser must be made from the
same IP address.

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