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.
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- getpwall(no arg info)
- getpwall() -> list_of_entries
- Return a list of all available password database entries, in arbitrary order.
- See pwd.__doc__ for more on password database entries.
- getpwnam(no arg info)
- getpwnam(name) -> entry
- Return the password database entry for the given user name.
- See pwd.__doc__ for more on password database entries.
- getpwuid(no arg info)
- getpwuid(uid) -> entry
- Return the password database entry for the given numeric user ID.
- See pwd.__doc__ for more on password database entries.
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