On Thursday 18 March 2004 11:55, Chris W. Parker wrote: > hello, > > given a gid or uid, how do i get the group name or user name > respectively? i'm doing this within php, but i will be executing > something via the cl and then storing the results. i know i can > grep the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files but i'd like to find out > if there's a better way. > > can someone help me out with this? > > > thanks, > chris. Try "getent"; Can't say it's "better", but it is "different." getent passwd getent groups getent hosts .... etc man getent Regards, Mike Klinke -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
