jandre / node-userid

A small native module to lookup uid and gid information in node.js
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userid

Simple nodejs library with native bindings for getting uid and gid information.

Installation

$ npm install userid 

This relies on GNU getgrname, getgrid, etc and works on POSIX systems only. Sorry, windows.

Usage

Example


var userid = require('userid');

// get user id
console.log("root's uid is:", userid.uid("root"));

// get group id
console.log("wheel's gid is:", userid.gid("wheel"));

// get user name
console.log("uid 0 name is:", userid.username(0));

// get group name 
console.log("gid 0 name is:", userid.groupname(0));

License

Copyright (C) 2013 Jen Andre jandre@gmail.com

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.