[colug-432] best ID function

[Tim Randles]

getpwuid


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Rick Troth <rmt at casita.net> wrote:

> from C?
>
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Jeff Frontz <jeff.frontz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I use "id -un".  Works on linux and MacOS (under ksh).
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Rick Troth <rmt at casita.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> There must be two dozen ways to extract the username.
> >> I've coded two or three in the past.  Before I do it again, what would
> >> y'all recommend?
> >>
> >> In this case, I need the username, not the UID.
> >> I'm writing a jail that will run another program for which the
> >> username is one of the arguments.
> >>
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