Re: Proper way to query user and group database on a Unix host?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Mike MacCana wrote:

What's the proper way to query the passwd and group database on a Unix

host?

I'd like to fetch the users in a group (obviously from name services),
but my many varied searches can't find any reference of someone ever
looking up users on a Unix system, just NT. Weird, I know.

the relevant modules are "pwd", "spwd" and "grp"; see:

    http://docs.python.org/lib/unix.html

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