Re: Howto check user

[Chip Seraphine]

If you don't have any kind of fancy user management, using editfiles to find a 
line beginning with ^username: should work.

Lots of ways to do it if you don't mind shelling out with a 'ReturnsZero'; 
doing a 'getpwnam' in perl is good.  Doing a finger or an id and checking the 
return value is also fine.  (Be careful if cross platform, since utilities 
like that sometimes move around from OS to OS.)



On Wednesday 07 July 2004 09:50, Sigurd Trygg wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> [RH-7.3, i386]
> 
> Using cfengine 2.1, what is the most convenient way to check if a user
> exists on a system?
> 
> Sigurd
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