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Revision 9971f689cbce2c7ce3241aed4af0f8455836fbea authored by Guido van Rossum on 06 October 1997, 21:09:32 UTC, committed by Guido van Rossum on 06 October 1997, 21:09:32 UTC 
Fix comment to add the all-important trailing colon to the example.
 
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Tip revision: 9971f689cbce2c7ce3241aed4af0f8455836fbea authored by Guido van Rossum on 06 October 1997, 21:09:32 UTC
Fix comment to add the all-important trailing colon to the example.
Tip revision: 9971f68
libpwd.tex 
\section{Built-in Module \sectcode{pwd}}
\label{module-pwd}

\bimodindex{pwd}
This module provides access to the \UNIX{} password database.
It is available on all \UNIX{} versions.

Password database entries are reported as 7-tuples containing the
following items from the password database (see \file{<pwd.h>}), in order:
\code{pw_name},
\code{pw_passwd},
\code{pw_uid},
\code{pw_gid},
\code{pw_gecos},
\code{pw_dir},
\code{pw_shell}.
The uid and gid items are integers, all others are strings.
An exception is raised if the entry asked for cannot be found.

It defines the following items:

\renewcommand{\indexsubitem}{(in module pwd)}
\begin{funcdesc}{getpwuid}{uid}
Return the password database entry for the given numeric user ID.
\end{funcdesc}

\begin{funcdesc}{getpwnam}{name}
Return the password database entry for the given user name.
\end{funcdesc}

\begin{funcdesc}{getpwall}{}
Return a list of all available password database entries, in arbitrary order.
\end{funcdesc}
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