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spwd — The shadow password database

New in version 2.5.

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>):

Index

Attribute

Meaning

0

sp_nam

Login name

1

sp_pwd

Encrypted password

2

sp_lstchg

Date of last change

3

sp_min

Minimal number of days between changes

4

sp_max

Maximum number of days between changes

5

sp_warn

Number of days before password expires to warn user about it

6

sp_inact

Number of days after password expires until account is blocked

7

sp_expire

Number of days since 1970-01-01 until account is disabled

8

sp_flag

Reserved

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

It defines the following items:

spwd.getspnam(name)

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

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.

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