import ffilib import uctypes import ustruct from ucollections import namedtuple libc = ffilib.libc() getpwnam_ = libc.func("P", "getpwnam", "s") struct_passwd = namedtuple("struct_passwd", ["pw_name", "pw_passwd", "pw_uid", "pw_gid", "pw_gecos", "pw_dir", "pw_shell"]) def getpwnam(user): passwd = getpwnam_(user) if not passwd: raise KeyError("getpwnam(): name not found: {}".format(user)) passwd_fmt = "SSIISSS" passwd = uctypes.bytes_at(passwd, ustruct.calcsize(passwd_fmt)) passwd = ustruct.unpack(passwd_fmt, passwd) return struct_passwd(*passwd)