[clug] Python question Re setuid()

[Leigh Makewell]

Thank you.

I used the code that Brad gave me. Works perfectly.

Darren Freeman wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 11:26, Leigh Makewell wrote:
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>>Hi guys.
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>>So does anyone know how to get the userid for a given username?
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>>I suppose I could parse the passwd file, but thats just a pain in the 
>>butt :)
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>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.
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>The following line entered at a shell will print my UID:
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>gawk -F ':' '/dfreeman:*/ {print $3}' </etc/passwd
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>>Leigh Makewell
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>Have fun,
>Darren
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