June 2002
Beginner
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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.