Question #52383 on Graphite changed:
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chrismd posted a new comment:
To answer your question, yes pwd is unix-specific, it is a module for
working with the system password database. It is used to lookup a user
id given a username, so other unix-specific calls can be made to drop
root privileges and become that user.

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