8.3 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. 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.