# 8.2 `pwd` -- The password database

Availability: Unix.

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 `<pwd.h>`), in order: `pw_name`, `pw_passwd`, `pw_uid`, `pw_gid`, `pw_gecos`, `pw_dir`, `pw_shell`. The uid and gid items are integers, all others are strings. `KeyError` is raised if the entry asked for cannot be found.

It defines the following items:

`getpwuid` (uid)
  Return the password database entry for the given numeric user ID.

`getpwnam` (name)
  Return the password database entry for the given user name.

`getpwall` ()
  Return a list of all available password database entries, in arbitrary order.