Package Health Score

53 / 100

security
No known security issues
popularity
Popular
maintenance
Inactive
community
Limited

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Security

No known security issues

All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

Security and license risk for significant versions

Version				Vulnerabilities	License Risk
4.0.0	\|	11/2021		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
3.0.0	\|	05/2019	Popular	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
2.1.0	\|	06/2016		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
1.2.1	\|	07/2015		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
1.1.1	\|	03/2015		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L

License

MIT

Security Policy

Yes

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Popularity

Popular

Weekly Downloads (265,044)

GitHub Stars: 29
Forks: 6
Contributors: 5

Direct Usage Popularity

The npm package passwd-user receives a total of 265,044 downloads a week. As such, we scored passwd-user popularity level to be Popular.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package passwd-user, we found that it has been starred 29 times.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Community

Limited

Readme.md: Yes
Contributing.md: No
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 5
Funding: Yes

This project has seen only 10 or less contributors.

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Maintenance

Inactive

Commit Frequency

No Recent Commits

Open Issues: 0
Open PR: 0
Last Release: 3 years ago
Last Commit: 2 years ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of passwd-user based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Inactive.

An important project maintenance signal to consider for passwd-user is that it hasn't seen any new versions released to npm in the past 12 months, and could be considered as a discontinued project, or that which receives low attention from its maintainers.

In the past month we didn't find any pull request activity or change in issues status has been detected for the GitHub repository.

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Package

Node.js Compatibility: ^12.20.0 || ^14.13.1 || >=16.0.0

Age: 11 years
Dependencies: 1 Direct
Versions: 12
Install Size: 9.08 kB
Dist-tags: 1
# of Files: 5
Maintainers: 1
TS Typings: No

passwd-user has more than a single and default latest tag published for the npm package. This means, there may be other tags available for this package, such as next to indicate future releases, or stable to indicate stable releases.

Readme

passwd-user

> Get the passwd user entry from a username or user identifier (UID)

Works on macOS and Linux. See user-info if you need cross-platform support.

Install

npm install passwd-user

Usage

import {passwdUser} from 'passwd-user';

console.log(await passwdUser('sindresorhus'));
/*
{
	username: 'sindresorhus',
	password: '*',
	userIdentifier: 501,
	groupIdentifier: 20,
	fullName: 'Sindre Sorhus',
	homeDirectory: '/home/sindresorhus',
	shell: '/bin/zsh'
}
*/

await passwdUser(501);
console.log('Got entry for user 501');

const user = await passwdUser();
console.log(`Got entry for user ${user.userIdentifier}`);

API

Returns an object with:

username
password
userIdentifier: UID
groupIdentifier: GID
fullName: Name of user
homeDirectory: Home directory
shell: Default shell

passwdUser(username?)

passwdUser(userIdentifier?)

Returns a Promise with the user entry.

passwdUserSync(username?)

passwdUserSync(userIdentifier?)

Returns an object with the user entry.

username

Type: string

The username to look up.

userIdentifier

Type: number
Default: process.getuid() (The current user)

The user identifier (UID) to look up.

username - Get the user's username (cross-platform)
fullname - Get the user's fullname (cross-platform)

passwd-user dependencies

execa

passwd-user development dependencies

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FAQs

What is passwd-user?

Get the passwd user entry from a username or user identifier (UID). Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for passwd-user, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is passwd-user popular?

The npm package passwd-user receives a total of 265,044 weekly downloads. As such, passwd-user popularity was classified as a popular. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is passwd-user well maintained?

We found indications that passwd-user is an Inactive project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is passwd-user safe to use?

The npm package passwd-user was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 21 November-2024, at 07:42 (UTC).

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