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+# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
+"""
+    MoinMoin - Cr@ns : checkpassword current-password
+
+    @author: daniel.stan@crans.org
+
+    @copyright: 2000-2004 Juergen Hermann <jh@web.de>,
+                2006 MoinMoin:ThomasWaldmann,
+
+    @license: GNU GPL, see COPYING for details.
+
+    To link to /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/MoinMoin/action
+"""
+from MoinMoin import user
+
+def execute(pagename, request):
+    """ Check password """
+    _ = request.getText
+    values = request.values
+    username = values.get('username', '')
+    password = values.get('password', '')
+
+    u = user.User(request, name=username, password=password, auth_method='moin')
+    if u.valid:
+       request.write('OK') 
+    else:
+       request.write('Wrong')
+    #request.write('hello world' + str(u))