I need to check if a user exists in either Linux or Windows, using Python 3 (3.7 right now for reasons unrelated).
No, pwd doesn't work on Windows.
No, getpass only returns current username, while I need to check any username.
Portable way of checking if *some* user exists in either Linux or Windows?
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as far as i know, there is no universal command for both distros, but you can check the env in your script
import os
if os.name [...]
or
import platform
my_os = platform.system()
based on this you can create different functions for both os.
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