Get User's Information in Python

import os
import getpass

getpass.getuser¶

getpass.getuser()

'dclong'

getpass.getpass¶

Prompt the user for a password without echoing. This is a secure way of asking user for password in a Python script.

getpass.getpass()

os.getuid¶

os.getuid()

1000

os.getgid¶

os.getgid()

1000

os.geteuid¶

os.geteuid()

1000

os.getegid¶

os.getegid()

1000

os.getresuid¶

os.getresuid()

(1000, 1000, 1000)

os.getresgid¶

os.getresgid()

(1000, 1000, 1000)

pwd¶

You can use the pwd module to get the user ID and group ID of any user.

import pwd

pwd.getpwnam("dclong")

pwd.struct_passwd(pw_name='dclong', pw_passwd='x', pw_uid=501, pw_gid=20, pw_gecos='dclong', pw_dir='/home/dclong', pw_shell='/bin/bash')

pwd.getpwnam("dclong").pw_gid

20

pwd.getpwuid(501)

pwd.struct_passwd(pw_name='dclong', pw_passwd='x', pw_uid=501, pw_gid=20, pw_gecos='dclong', pw_dir='/home/dclong', pw_shell='/bin/bash')

pwd.getpwuid(501).pw_gid

20

Test User’s Access to Path¶

os.access("/home", os.R_OK)

True

os.access("/home", os.W_OK)

False

!ls -lha /home

total 12K
drwxr-xr-x  1 root   root   4.0K Jun 28 18:12 .
drwxr-xr-x  1 root   root   4.0K Jun 28 18:12 ..
drwxr-x--- 12 dclong docker 4.0K Jul  5 17:25 dclong

os.access("/tmp", os.W_OK)

True

References¶

https://docs.python.org/3/library/pwd.html