Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: getent
Version: 0.1.1
Summary: Python interface to the POSIX getent family of commands
Home-page: UNKNOWN
Author: Wijnand Modderman-Lenstra
Author-email: maze@pyth0n.org
License: MIT
Description: ========
         getent
        ========
        
        Python interface to the POSIX getent family of commands (getpwent, getgrent, getnetent, etc.)
        
        
        Usage
        =====
        
        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'}
        
Keywords: getent group passwd shadow network alias host
Platform: UNKNOWN
