Validate user account without login

[Antonio Salazar]

I have a working application which does LDAP authentication exclusively. I'm adding a a web service that generates an access token if the user and password passed to it by JSON are valid.

I'm not sure about how to validate the account against LDAP inside the web service, but I'd really like to reuse the parent app configuration.

[Antonio Salazar]

Just found it in the manual. It's done with:

user = auth.login_bare(username, password)

or in my case:

login_is_valid = bool(auth.login_bare(username, password))