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8.2 <tt class=module>pwd</tt> --
         The password database</A>
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<p class=availability>Availability: <span
 class=platform>Unix</span>.</p>

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

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Password database entries are reported as 7-tuples containing the
following items from the password database (see <tt>&lt;pwd.h&gt;</tt>), in order:
<tt>pw_name</tt>,
<tt>pw_passwd</tt>,
<tt>pw_uid</tt>,
<tt>pw_gid</tt>,
<tt>pw_gecos</tt>,
<tt>pw_dir</tt>,
<tt>pw_shell</tt>.
The uid and gid items are integers, all others are strings.
<tt class=exception>KeyError</tt> is raised if the entry asked for cannot be found.

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It defines the following items:

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<dl><dt><b><a name="l2h-1444"><tt class=function>getpwuid</tt></a></b> (<var>uid</var>)
<dd>
Return the password database entry for the given numeric user ID.
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<dl><dt><b><a name="l2h-1445"><tt class=function>getpwnam</tt></a></b> (<var>name</var>)
<dd>
Return the password database entry for the given user name.
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<dl><dt><b><a name="l2h-1446"><tt class=function>getpwall</tt></a></b> ()
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Return a list of all available password database entries, in arbitrary order.
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