pwd behaviour when new users are added

[Timothy Grant]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 03:38:28AM +0000, Jeff Epler wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:31:23 -0800, Timothy Grant
> >
> >if I 'reload(pwd)' it still doesn't work if I 'del pwd' and
> >then 'import pwd' it doesn't work.
> >
> >What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Calls to the underlying C library functions don't appear to re-open
> the password file.
> 
Thanks for the confirmation Jeff. As stated, I have written
Python version of all the functions in pwd and they work quite
well, with the added benefit that they return shadow
information as well. If anyone is interested, let me know.

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