'Returns whether this user/pass combo should be given
access to the cobbler read-write API.
For the system user, this answer is always "yes", but
it is only valid for the socket interface.
FIXME: currently looks for users in /etc/cobbler/auth.conf
Would be very nice to allow for PAM and/or just Kerberos.'

def __validate_user(self, input_user, input_password):

    return self.api.authenticate(input_user, input_password)
