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Unix Specific Services</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="document"> <div class="documentwrapper"> <div class="bodywrapper"> <div class="body"> <div class="section" id="module-spwd"> <span id="spwd-the-shadow-password-database"></span><h1>35.3. <a class="reference internal" href="#module-spwd" title="spwd: The shadow password database (getspnam() and friends). (Unix)"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">spwd</span></tt></a> — The shadow password database<a class="headerlink" href="#module-spwd" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <p class="versionadded"> <span class="versionmodified">New in version 2.5.</span></p> <p>This module provides access to the Unix shadow password database. It is available on various Unix versions.</p> <p>You must have enough privileges to access the shadow password database (this usually means you have to be root).</p> <p>Shadow password database entries are reported as a tuple-like object, whose attributes correspond to the members of the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">spwd</span></tt> structure (Attribute field below, see <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre"><shadow.h></span></tt>):</p> <table border="1" class="docutils"> <colgroup> <col width="13%" /> <col width="27%" /> <col width="60%" /> </colgroup> <thead valign="bottom"> <tr class="row-odd"><th class="head">Index</th> <th class="head">Attribute</th> <th class="head">Meaning</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody valign="top"> <tr class="row-even"><td>0</td> <td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sp_nam</span></tt></td> <td>Login name</td> </tr> <tr class="row-odd"><td>1</td> <td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sp_pwd</span></tt></td> <td>Encrypted password</td> </tr> <tr class="row-even"><td>2</td> <td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sp_lstchg</span></tt></td> <td>Date of last change</td> </tr> <tr class="row-odd"><td>3</td> <td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sp_min</span></tt></td> <td>Minimal number of days between changes</td> </tr> <tr class="row-even"><td>4</td> <td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sp_max</span></tt></td> <td>Maximum number of days between changes</td> </tr> <tr class="row-odd"><td>5</td> <td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sp_warn</span></tt></td> <td>Number of days before password expires to warn user about it</td> </tr> <tr class="row-even"><td>6</td> <td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sp_inact</span></tt></td> <td>Number of days after password expires until account is blocked</td> </tr> <tr class="row-odd"><td>7</td> <td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sp_expire</span></tt></td> <td>Number of days since 1970-01-01 until account is disabled</td> </tr> <tr class="row-even"><td>8</td> <td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sp_flag</span></tt></td> <td>Reserved</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>The sp_nam and sp_pwd items are strings, all others are integers. <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#exceptions.KeyError" title="exceptions.KeyError"><tt class="xref py py-exc docutils literal"><span class="pre">KeyError</span></tt></a> is raised if the entry asked for cannot be found.</p> <p>It defines the following items:</p> <dl class="function"> <dt id="spwd.getspnam"> <tt class="descclassname">spwd.</tt><tt class="descname">getspnam</tt><big>(</big><em>name</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#spwd.getspnam" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Return the shadow password database entry for the given user name.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="function"> <dt id="spwd.getspall"> <tt class="descclassname">spwd.</tt><tt class="descname">getspall</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#spwd.getspall" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Return a list of all available shadow password database entries, in arbitrary order.</p> </dd></dl> <div class="admonition-see-also admonition seealso"> <p class="first admonition-title">See also</p> <dl class="last docutils"> <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="grp.html#module-grp" title="grp: The group database (getgrnam() and friends). (Unix)"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">grp</span></tt></a></dt> <dd>An interface to the group database, similar to this.</dd> <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="pwd.html#module-pwd" title="pwd: The password database (getpwnam() and friends). 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