Luke,
> From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@switchboard.net>
> To: samba@samba.anu.edu.au
> Subject: programming question, for samba.
>Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971009152807.9779I-100000@cb1-gw.cb1.com>
> help, help. does anyone know of a generic way to convert string
username
into a uid (user id)?
Put this in a script and make it executable:
awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"} { if ($1 == name) print $3}' name=$1
/etc/passwd
Works on almost every Unix flavour...
regards,
Rob den Boer