Re: address@hidden: tramp sudo:: and version control on RCS root controlled files]

[Michael Albinus]

Andre Spiegel <address@hidden> writes:

> A related operation, also used in VC, is to find a user's login name,
> given the uid of that user.  In the local case, Emacs does it via
> (user-login-name UID), which is implemented as getpwuid().  How would
> you do that for a remote file?  I'm currently baffled as to how I could
> get that information at the shell level, sans grepping /etc/passwd of
> course.

# touch /tmp/foo; chown UID /tmp/foo

Then you can retrieve the user name via file-attributes, with
ID-FORMAT 'string.

Best regards, Michael.