parse-passwd    

Parse a passwd file into a list of users.

Install

Install with npm:

sh
$ npm install --save parse-passwd

Usage

js
var parse = require('parse-passwd');

API

Example

js
// assuming '/etc/passwd' contains:
// doowb:*:123:123:Brian Woodward:/Users/doowb:/bin/bash
console.log(parse(fs.readFileSync('/etc/passwd', 'utf8')));

//=> [
//=>   {
//=>     username: 'doowb',
//=>     password: '*',
//=>     uid: '123',
//=>     gid: '123',
//=>     gecos: 'Brian Woodward',
//=>     homedir: '/Users/doowb',
//=>     shell: '/bin/bash'
//=>   }
//=> ]

Params

• content {String}: Content of a passwd file to parse.
• returns {Array}: Array of user objects parsed from the content.

About

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](../../issues/new).

Please read the [contributing guide](contributing.md) for avice on opening issues, pull requests, and coding standards.

Building docs

_(This document was generated by verb-generate-readme (a verb generator), please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in [.verb.md](.verb.md).)_

To generate the readme and API documentation with verb:

sh
$ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

sh
$ npm install -d && npm test

Author

Brian Woodward

• github/doowb
• twitter/doowb

License

Copyright © 2016, Brian Woodward. Released under the [MIT license](LICENSE).

_This file was generated by verb-generate-readme, v0.2.0, on October 19, 2016._