Python script to list users and groups

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For *nix, you have the pwd and grp modules. You iterate through pwd.getpwall() to get all users. You look up their group names with grp.getgrgid(gid).

import pwd, grp
for p in pwd.getpwall():
    print p[0], grp.getgrgid(p[3])[0]

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