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passwd-user
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Get the passwd user entry from a username or user identifier (UID)
Works on macOS and Linux. See user-info
if you need cross-platform support.
npm install passwd-user
import {passwdUser} from 'passwd-user';
console.log(await passwdUser('sindresorhus'));
/*
{
username: 'sindresorhus',
password: '*',
userIdentifier: 501,
groupIdentifier: 20,
fullName: 'Sindre Sorhus',
homeDirectory: '/home/sindresorhus',
shell: '/bin/zsh'
}
*/
await passwdUser(501);
console.log('Got entry for user 501');
const user = await passwdUser();
console.log(`Got entry for user ${user.userIdentifier}`);
Returns an object with:
username
password
userIdentifier
: UIDgroupIdentifier
: GIDfullName
: Name of userhomeDirectory
: Home directoryshell
: Default shellReturns a Promise<object>
with the user entry.
Returns an object
with the user entry.
Type: string
The username to look up.
Type: number
Default: process.getuid()
(The current user)
The user identifier (UID) to look up.
FAQs
Get the passwd user entry from a username or user identifier (UID)
The npm package passwd-user receives a total of 341,731 weekly downloads. As such, passwd-user popularity was classified as popular.
We found that passwd-user demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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