spwd

This module provides access to the Unix shadow password database.
It is available on various Unix versions.

Shadow password database entries are reported as 9-tuples of type struct_spwd,
containing the following items from the password database (see `<shadow.h>'):
sp_namp, sp_pwdp, sp_lstchg, sp_min, sp_max, sp_warn, sp_inact, sp_expire, sp_flag.
The sp_namp and sp_pwdp are strings, the rest are integers.
An exception is raised if the entry asked for cannot be found.
You have to be root to be able to use this module.

Classes

struct_spwd

spwd.struct_spwd: Results from getsp*() routines.

This object may be accessed either as a 9-tuple of
  (sp_namp,sp_pwdp,sp_lstchg,sp_min,sp_max,sp_warn,sp_inact,sp_expire,sp_flag)
or via the object attributes as named in the above tuple.

count(self, value, /)

  Return number of occurrences of value.

index(self, value, start=0, stop=9223372036854775807, /)

  Return first index of value.

  Raises ValueError if the value is not present.

n_fields = 11

n_sequence_fields = 9

n_unnamed_fields = 0

sp_expire = <member 'sp_expire' of 'spwd.struct_spwd' objects>
  #days since 1970-01-01 when account expires

sp_flag = <member 'sp_flag' of 'spwd.struct_spwd' objects>
  reserved

sp_inact = <member 'sp_inact' of 'spwd.struct_spwd' objects>
  #days after pw expires until account is disabled

sp_lstchg = <member 'sp_lstchg' of 'spwd.struct_spwd' objects>
  date of last change

sp_max = <member 'sp_max' of 'spwd.struct_spwd' objects>
  max #days between changes

sp_min = <member 'sp_min' of 'spwd.struct_spwd' objects>
  min #days between changes

sp_nam = <member 'sp_nam' of 'spwd.struct_spwd' objects>
  login name; deprecated

sp_namp = <member 'sp_namp' of 'spwd.struct_spwd' objects>
  login name

sp_pwd = <member 'sp_pwd' of 'spwd.struct_spwd' objects>
  encrypted password; deprecated

sp_pwdp = <member 'sp_pwdp' of 'spwd.struct_spwd' objects>
  encrypted password

sp_warn = <member 'sp_warn' of 'spwd.struct_spwd' objects>
  #days before pw expires to warn user about it

Functions

getspall

getspall()

  Return a list of all available shadow password database entries, in arbitrary order.

  See `help(spwd)` for more on shadow password database entries.

getspnam

getspnam(arg, /)

  Return the shadow password database entry for the given user name.

  See `help(spwd)` for more on shadow password database entries.