spwd — The shadow password database - Python 3.10.9 documentation 编辑

Deprecated since version 3.11: The spwd module is deprecated (see PEP 594 for details and alternatives).

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

You must have enough privileges to access the shadow password database (this usually means you have to be root).

Shadow password database entries are reported as a tuple-like object, whose attributes correspond to the members of the spwd structure (Attribute field below, see <shadow.h>):

The sp_namp and sp_pwdp items are strings, all others are integers. KeyError is raised if the entry asked for cannot be found.

The following functions are defined:

spwd.getspnam(name)

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

Changed in version 3.6: Raises a PermissionError instead of KeyError if the user doesn’t have privileges.

spwd.getspall()

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

See also

Module grp

An interface to the group database, similar to this.

Module pwd

An interface to the normal password database, similar to this.