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getpwnam

getpwnam name

Retrieves the passwd file entry of a user, name. The return value in list context is:

($name,$passwd,$uid,$gid,$quota,$comment,$gcos,$dir,$shell)
If you want to do this repeatedly, consider caching the data in a hash using getpwent.

In scalar context, getpwnam returns only the numeric user ID.


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