pwd

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. An exception is raised if the entry asked for cannot be found.

Functions

getpwall(() -> list_of_entries)	Return a list of all available password database entries, in arbitrary order.
getpwnam((name) -> (pw_name,pw_passwd,pw_uid,)	pw_gid,pw_gecos,pw_dir,pw_shell)
getpwuid((uid) -> (pw_name,pw_passwd,pw_uid,)	pw_gid,pw_gecos,pw_dir,pw_shell)

Classes

struct_passwd	pwd.struct_passwd: Results from getpw*() routines.
struct_pwent	alias of struct_passwd