Mike MacCana [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi folks,
What's the proper way to query the passwd and group database on a Unix
host?
Use the pwd and grp modules, respectively.
## Get the full group database entry, leave just the user list,
## and split the list on comma
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
Chris Brannon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Iirc since Python 2.5 these tuples are named ...
Instead, do this:
import grp
groupname = 'users'
groupusers = grp.getgrnam(groupname)[3]
... thus this line could be written as:
groupusers = grp.getgrnam(groupname).gr_mem
Slightly more readable, imho
Guilherme Polo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Sebastian lunar Wiesner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris Brannon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Iirc since Python 2.5 these tuples are named ...
Instead, do this:
import grp
groupname = 'users'
groupusers = grp.getgrnam(groupname)[3]
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 09:13 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Thanks - in the midst of trying to filter out search results for every
damn python 'user group' 'yahoo group' 'interest group' etc, I seem to
have missed this.
Thanks to the other
Hi folks,
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.
