On Fri, Mar 03, 2006, Pat Martin wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> I seem to be having a problem finding the right tool in python. Given
> a username I want to find the uid for it. I can do the reverse very
> easily with:
> pwd.getpwuid(2012)
> This returns a tuple of data from the passwd file. But I want to do
> something like:
> command(username)
> And get something that returns the uid (the number).
You're close:
import pwd
pw = pwd.getpwnam('username')
Bill
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