[issue10388] spwd returning different value depending on privileges

[Vajrasky Kok]

Vajrasky Kok added the comment:

Attached the patch to raise OSError instead of returning empty list if a normal user uses getspall function of spwd module.

I investigated about this issue. There exists situation where /etc/shadow file does not exist:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117202
https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/2887

So I think it is better to differentiate the result of the function where a normal user trying to access /etc/shadow file (permission denied, therefore should raise exception) or root user trying to access non-existent /etc/shadow file (therefore should get empty list).

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keywords: +patch
nosy: +vajrasky
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file31384/fix_error_message_getspall.patch

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