programming question, for samba.

Gerald W. Carter jerry at Eng.Auburn.EDU
Thu Oct 9 20:09:16 GMT 1997


> help, help.  does anyone know of a generic way to convert string username 
> into a uid (user id)?
> 
> luke

Assuming you are on the Unix side?  Try getpwnam().  Look at the man
pages on this for related functions.



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