(Unix only) The pwd
module provides an interface to the Unix password “database” (/etc/passwd
and friends).
This database (usually a plain-text file) contains information about
the user accounts on the local machine. Example 12-2 demonstrates pwd
.
The getpwall
function returns a list of database
entries for all available users. This can be useful if you want to
search for a user.
If you have to look up many names, you can use
getpwall
to preload a dictionary, as shown in Example 12-3.
Example 12-3. Using the pwd Module
File: pwd-example-2.py import pwd import os # preload password dictionary _pwd = {} for info in pwd.getpwall(): _pwd[info[0]] = _pwd[info[2]] = info def userinfo(uid): # name or uid integer return _pwd[uid] print userinfo(os.getuid()) print userinfo("root")('effbot', 'dsWjk8', 4711, 4711, 'eff-bot', '/home/effbot', '/bin/bosh')
('root', 'hs2giiw', 0, 0, 'root', '/root', '/bin/bash')
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