Locations

Unix Account packages are available from Cheese shop (PyPI) at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/unixaccount

The project page is hosted on Github.

If you’ve never worked with git or contributed to a project on Github, there is a quick start guide.

If you find something wrong or know of a missing feature, please create an issue on the project page. If you find that inconvenient or have some security concerns, you could also drop me a line at <devel@beli.sk>.

Install

pip install unixaccount

Contents

create_user(username, group=None, homedir=None, password=None, mkhome=False, shell=None)
    Create a new user account

delete_user(username)
    Delete user account.

modify_user(username, group=None, homedir=None, password=None, mkhome=False, shell=None)
    Modify existing user account.

get_gid(groupname)
    Return numeric group ID for given group name or raise NotFound exception.

get_uid(username)
    Return numeric user ID for given username or raise NotFound exception.

get_username(uid)
    Return user name for given numeric user ID or raise NotFound exception

License

Copyright 2014 Michal Belica <devel@beli.sk>

Unix Account is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

Unix Account is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with Unix Account.  If not, see < http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ >.