Proper way to query user and group database on a Unix host?
Sebastian "lunar" Wiesner
basti.wiesner at gmx.net
Wed Jul 23 08:16:03 EDT 2008
Chris Brannon <cmbrannon at cox.net>:
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
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