C lang

Hi! I'm working on some components in PHP for system administration to be released as reusable packages, to build some kind of server control panel with some time and patience.

I'm working on a credentials component to check things like the current user running the PHP process, the ability to change the password (which I would do through a shell command), and a very important feature: the ability to login with OS credentials.

For that purpose I'm already considering LDAP, but I want to support first an easy setup, like I would do for a small VPS. I want to login to my future panel with my Linux root credentials. This is very easy by parsing the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files, but I want to be multiplatform from the beginning.

How could I check a username/password in a similar way to login on Windows without having to configure Active Directory and similar things? I allow myself to use FFI to make external calls to native DLLs, so if the answer is on a Windows internal API it will not be a problem.

So, here is the question: is there any shell/C /C++ way to check if a given username and password matches a real Windows credential? Is there any way to check if that account is a root user? Thank you so much!

EDIT: If there's not any API to check a login, could it be done through reading the hashed password of a user, and hashing the provided one to check if they match? If so, how can you get the hashed password of a user, and how can you encode a password to compare both hashes?

I want to make a website but im learning C and C++, and i dont know what language should i use.

Hi, I am currently doing my Final Year Project for uni. Basically, I would like to build an android mobile application that has features such as translation from picture to text to synthetic speech (using google cloud API) and also integration with other IoT devices and Google AIY Voice Kit. I am wondering which framework will be best to use.

As for language, I have some experience with HTML, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL from creating a website for a school project and also very basic experience with Python and C. I have to complete this project by February. Hope I can get some help. Thank you in advance!

Hello Guys

I am a newbie here and not very well experienced with different stacks. I have primarily programmed in C lang/C++ and am somewhat proficient in it.

I am now considering taking up Spring as a new framework to learn to get into Web dev as I know a little Java. But I have concerns about choosing it and am confused with JavaScript frameworks.

Could you please tell me which stack should I choose from?

Actually, I'll add, C++ and C# as well.

Well, I'm into Computer Science since 1996, so I understand a bit of everything plus a lot of different OSs, I study 10 hours per day every day. However back in the 90s we didn't have books or universities about programming, all were passed through if you knew somebody in that profession. Which I did and in that time, he showed me .NET and MySQL, and that offered a lot of jobs also Java. Today you have a lot of options but I'm already discarding new languages as I believe they will jot succeed.

My always dream was to create game, and software. I don't understand all programming concepts and I'm studying all languages at the same time, so I'm heavy loaded. But that keeps me more aware.

I made a choice: use Python for everything but if you want performance, apps, security, compatibility, Multiplatform. What should I choose? The real question here is: which language should I go 100% and that language will teach me all I need about programming BUT without getting lost in that language forever (I discard any Assembly possibility) and one that has full documentation, support and libraries.

In my experience: I found a lot of info for python and java. But hardly I have ever found anything for C lang, C++ and, what about C# (it's only for Windows, is it easy, I saw a lot of documentation). Thanks!!

I studied C lang/C++ and G (lab view) for 2 years at my previous university, the university where I study now teaches me C#, I am interested in web development (frontend and backend), embedded (for the Internet of Things, for Arduino), mobile development (Android, iOS), game development, The science of data and ML. I studied mathematics (discrete mathematics, analytical geometry, mathematical analysis).

I ask the developers for advice: what should I learn to be able to do everything I want (websites, games, drivers, sockets, desktop applications and others)?

I am looking for a universal solution, and I am limited in training time, and the number of vacancies is also important.

P.S. I used Google translator