Well I would like to be able to do it on the fly when a request is proceeded by Apache. Through mod_rewrite for example. I already do it with a RewriteMap which returns me UID/GID, but perhaps there is a less time consuming solution. Ben > In case your system uses /etc/passwd, this will get you both values separated by a colon: > > grep username /etc/passwd|cut -f3,4 -d: > > HTH > Kurt Bremser > AMOS Austria > > Newton was wrong. There is no gravity. The Earth sucks. > ________________________________________ > Von: Ben RUBSON [ben.rubson@xxxxxxxxx] > Gesendet: Freitag, 15. April 2016 09:14 > An: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Betreff: Get UID/GID from a username string [wd-vc] > > Hello, > > I already do it with a RewriteMap Perl script, but perhaps a faster (in terms of performance) solution exists. > Let's assume an incoming request contains a username, is there a way to get the system UID of this username string (Linux/FreeBSD) ? > And from a UID string, to get the corresponding GID ? > > Thank you very much, > > Ben --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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