This module provides access to the Unix password database. It is
available on all Unix versions.
Password database entries are reported as 7-tuples containing
the following items from the password database (see
<pwd.h>), in order: pw_name,
pw_passwd, pw_uid, pw_gid,
pw_gecos, pw_dir, pw_shell. The uid and gid
items are integers, all others are strings. A KeyError
exception is raised if the entry asked for cannot be found.
It defines the following items:
-
getpwuid (uid)
- Return the password database entry for the given numeric user
ID.
-
getpwnam (name)
- Return the password database entry for the given user
name.
-
getpwall ()
- Return a list of all available password database entries, in
arbitrary order.
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