getent

Python interface to the POSIX getent family of commands (getpwent, getgrent, getnetent, etc.)

Usage

Installation: https://pypi.org/project/pygetent/

Here a few examples.

Load the interface:

>>> import getent

Doing a passwd lookup:

>>> print dict(getent.passwd('root'))
{'dir': '/root',
 'gecos': 'root',
 'gid': 0,
 'name': 'root',
 'password': 'x',
 'shell': '/bin/bash',
 'uid': 0}

Doing a group lookup:

>>> print dict(getent.group('root'))
{'gid': 0, 'members': [], 'name': 'root', 'password': 'x'}

Bugs

Please use the bug tracker at GitHub for bugs or feature requests.

Authors

• Wijnand Modderman-Lenstra
• Thomas Kula
• Olivier Cortès

Build status

Why was this forked?

Originally forked from https://github.com/tehmaze/getent. This fork was created since

1. the original repository is now archived
2. The package published to pypi has a broken setup.py, which leads to installation failure. This was due to the file() function being called on this very Readme. While the original repository reflects an update that uses 'read()`, the PyPi source has not been updated. This repository exists to republish to PyPI