how do I programmatically verify user's password?

[mrincognito]

Greetings,

Is there a Zimbra SOAP API to verify user's password?

That is I have a user name and a password, how do I know that the
password is valid?

Thanks

[marisu]

you can use this command to have a try:

[zimbra@mail ~]$ cd /opt/zimbra/cyrus-sasl/sbin/
[zimbra@mail sbin]$ ./testsaslauthd -u user@domain -p password
0: OK "Success."

[mmorse]

Preauth - Zimbra :: Wiki

The SOAP interface uses the standard AuthRequest message, but instead of passing in a password, you specify <preauth> data.
[snip]
The auth token will be return in the AuthResponse. At which point, you can "inject" it into the app via the URL interface.

[mrincognito]

Thanks for the reply, but I do need to *verify* the user password once I am presented with it.
Pre-authentication is not exactly what I need.

Do you have other suggesstions?