from twisted.internet import protocol, reactor, defer, utils import pwd import os # Yet another back-end class LocalFingerService(service.Service): implements(IFingerService) def getUser(self, user): user = user.strip() try: entry = pwd.getpwnam(user) except KeyError: return defer.succeed("No such user") try: f = file(os.path.join(entry[5],'.plan')) except (IOError, OSError): return defer.succeed("No such user") data = f.read() data = data.strip() f.close() return defer.succeed(data) def getUsers(self): return defer.succeed([]) f = LocalFingerService()