Test of the pwd module
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pwd.py b/Lib/test/test_pwd.py
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+import pwd
+import string
+
+verbose = 0
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+ verbose = 1
+
+entries = pwd.getpwall()
+
+for e in entries:
+ name = e[0]
+ uid = e[2]
+ if verbose:
+ print name, uid
+ dbuid = pwd.getpwuid(uid)
+ if dbuid[0] <> name:
+ print 'Mismatch in pwd.getpwuid()'
+ dbname = pwd.getpwnam(name)
+ if dbname[2] <> uid:
+ print 'Mismatch in pwd.getpwnam()'
+ break
+
+# try to get some errors
+bynames = {}
+byuids = {}
+for n, p, u, g, gecos, d, s in entries:
+ bynames[n] = u
+ byuids[u] = n
+
+allnames = bynames.keys()
+namei = 0
+fakename = allnames[namei]
+while bynames.has_key(fakename):
+ chars = map(None, fakename)
+ for i in range(len(chars)):
+ if chars[i] == 'z':
+ chars[i] = 'A'
+ break
+ elif chars[i] == 'Z':
+ continue
+ else:
+ chars[i] = chr(ord(chars[i]) + 1)
+ break
+ else:
+ namei = namei + 1
+ try:
+ fakename = allnames[namei]
+ except IndexError:
+ # should never happen... if so, just forget it
+ break
+ fakename = string.join(map(None, chars), '')
+
+try:
+ pwd.getpwnam(fakename)
+except KeyError:
+ pass
+else:
+ print 'fakename', fakename, 'did not except pwd.getpwnam()'
+
+uids = byuids.keys()
+uids.sort()
+uids.reverse()
+fakeuid = uids[0] + 1
+
+try:
+ pwd.getpwuid(fakeuid)
+except KeyError:
+ pass
+else:
+ print 'fakeuid', fakeuid, 'did not except pwd.getpwuid()'