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Author r.david.murray
Recipients BreamoreBoy, astrand, r.david.murray, vstinner
Date 2014-03-23.17:59:38
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I don't think that changes the picture.  If the error code is non-zero, that means that one of the access methods failed, which means getpwnam can't report reliably whether or not that user exists according to the system configuration.
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