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6.12 getpass -- Portable password input
The getpass module provides two functions:
- getpass([prompt])
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Prompt the user for a password without echoing. The user is
prompted using the string prompt, which defaults to
'Password: '. Availability: Macintosh, Unix, Windows.
- getuser()
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Return the ``login name'' of the user.
Availability: Unix, Windows.
This function checks the environment variables LOGNAME, USER, LNAME and USERNAME, in order, and returns the value of the first one which is set to a non-empty string. If none are set, the login name from the password database is returned on systems which support the pwd module, otherwise, an exception is raised.
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Release 2.2, documentation updated on December 21, 2001.