Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 21:44:46 -0400 (EDT) From: CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net> To: yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr (Evren Yurtesen) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UID? Message-ID: <199808010144.VAA14959@lucy.bedford.net> In-Reply-To: <35C258A1.74FB20EC@turkey.ispro.net.tr> from Evren Yurtesen at "Aug 1, 98 02:52:01 am"
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Evren Yurtesen wrote: [Charset iso-8859-9 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > hello > maybe this is stupid question but how may I know > which UID belonging to which user without looking in to > the password file? > thanks Ultimately, you (or a program) will have to look in the passwd database. In the general case, this is more complicated than just looking in /etc/passwd. There's a FreeBSD-specific utility, pw, to do this. (man pw). pw usershow NAME | cut -f3 -d: will display user NAME's uid. If you need to do this a lot, and to take actions based on the uid, or if the user is not found, you may wish to use a C program which calls the getpwnam(3) library routine. Dave -- Sancho Panza: `Microsoft Windows NT Server is the most secure network operating system available.' Don Quixote: `You are mistaken, Sancho.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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