[clug] Python question Re setuid()

[Darren Freeman]

On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 11:26, Leigh Makewell wrote:
> Hi guys.

> So does anyone know how to get the userid for a given username?
> 
> I suppose I could parse the passwd file, but thats just a pain in the 
> butt :)

Not really, I think an awk script would do the trick, or even a shell
script. Set your delimiter to ':' and the first entry is the username.
Awk will find that no problems. Then the third entry is the uid.

The following line entered at a shell will print my UID:

gawk -F ':' '/dfreeman:*/ {print $3}' </etc/passwd

> Leigh Makewell

Have fun,
Darren