Welcome to pyutmpx’s documentation!

pyutmpx is a CPython 3.x module which allows you to interact with user accounting databases, a.k.a login-related log files found within POSIX systems, such as utmp, wtmp and btmp.

It was developed for the fingerd project, which needs to know the last login date of a user, if the user is still logged in, on which line they are connected to the system, and so on. I decided to make my own module to manage these files.

These files and the interfaces to them vary among systems, but this module attempts at implementing as much as possible, including the standardized form in POSIX and the Single Unix Specification.

• Onboarding
  • Installing pyutmpx
    • Dependencies
    • Installing pyutmpx using pip
  • Trying pyutmpx out in an interactive shell
• Discussion topics
  • Databases accessible through pyutmpx
• API Reference
  • utmp entry types
  • Entry formats
  • Classes abstracting the databases