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5.5. Built-in Module 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.
It defines the following items:
- getpwuid (uid) -- function of module pwd
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Return the password database entry for the given numeric user ID.
- getpwnam (name) -- function of module pwd
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Return the password database entry for the given user name.
- getpwall () -- function of module pwd
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Return a list of all available password database entries, in arbitrary order.