Get UID of username

Gary Herron gherron at islandtraining.com
Mon Jan 5 12:26:14 EST 2004


On Monday 05 January 2004 09:20 am, Florian Lindner wrote:
> Hello,
> how can I find out the UID of a username on a linux system?
> Thx,
> Florian

Try the pwd module:

>>> import pwd
>>> pwd.getpwnam('gjh')
('gjh', 'x', 500, 500, 'Gary Herron', '/home/gjh', '/bin/bash')


Gary Herron






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