simple-login-system 0.1.6

Simple login script

Simple file-based authentication system with messaging, permissions, and moderation.

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🌟 Why This Project?

• Fully customizable and easy to extend
• Includes real-world features (messaging, permissions, banning, etc.)
• Lightweight — no database required

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✨ Features

• 🔑 User authentication (login & signup)
• 🔒 Password hashing using SHA-256
• 📬 User-to-user messaging
• 📥 Mailbox system (read, send, clear)
• 🛡️ Permission system (tiers 1–5)
• ⬆️ User promotion system
• 🚫 User banning system
• ❌ Account deletion
• 🛠️ Initial setup mode

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🔐 System Overview

This system uses plain text files as a simple, lightweight database.

📁 Data Storage

• users.txt → Stores usernames and hashed passwords
• bannedusers.txt → Stores banned usernames
• user_(id).txt → Stores user permissions
• mailbox_(username).txt → Stores user messages

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🛠️ First-Time Setup

download the program by running:

pip install simple-login-system==0.1.3

Run it by typing

python -m simplelogin.login

Run the program and type:

setup

!DISCLAIMER!

Setup user can only be used for promoting and some default features

Make a different user and promote it to use more features

This will:

• Create a default admin account
• Grant admin promotion permissions

Default credentials:

• Username: setup
• Password: setup

⚠️ Important: Delete this account after creating your own admin account and give it perms.

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🧑‍💻 Usage

At startup, choose:

• log in
• sign up
• setup

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📜 Commands

Command	Description
help	Show all commands
date/time	Shows the current date and time
message	Send a message to a user
readmail	Read your mailbox
promote	Promote a user (requires permission)
ban	Ban a user
blacklist	Blacklists a username from use for a new account
deleteaccount	Delete your account
changelog	View changes
quit	Exit the program

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🚫 Banning System

• Stored in bannedusers.txt

When a user is banned:

• Their account is removed
• Their mailbox is deleted
• Their username cannot be reused

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🔮 Planned Features

• Improved security (salted hashing, validation)
• Better error handling
• Cleaner code structure
• Database support (SQLite)
• Logging system
• Admin tools / interface

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🤝 Contributing

• 🐛 Found a bug? Open an issue
• 💡 Have an idea? Suggest a feature
• 🔧 Want to improve the code? Submit a PR

All contributions are welcome.

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🤖 AI declaration

Used copilot for deployment to PyPi and chatgpt for simple bug fixes early on and for writing part of the ReadMe

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📄 License

This project is free to use for educational purposes.

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Made with learning in mind.
If you like it, consider ⭐ starring the repo!

I will try to update this program once in a while so I have a changelog aswel.