10-21-2006
UNIX talk
I have the manpage for this utility on my system, but the utility itself is not there.
My friend has the utility, but it does not work, not even on the same machine.
Does anyone remember it? What software package is it related to? Where is it configured?
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
userinfo
USERINFO(8) BSD System Manager's Manual USERINFO(8)
NAME
userinfo -- displays user information
SYNOPSIS
userinfo [-e] user
DESCRIPTION
The userinfo utility retrieves the user information from the system. The userinfo utility is only available if built with EXTENSIONS. See
user(8) for more information.
The following command line option is recognised:
-e Return 0 if the user exists, and non-zero if the user does not exist, on the system. No information is displayed. This form of the
command is useful for scripts which need to check whether a particular user name or uid is already in use on the system.
The user argument may either be a user's name, or a uid.
EXIT STATUS
The userinfo utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO
passwd(5), group(8), user(8), useradd(8), userdel(8)
HISTORY
The userinfo utility first appeared in NetBSD 1.5. It is based on the addnerd package by the same author.
AUTHORS
The userinfo utility was written by Alistair G. Crooks <agc@NetBSD.org>.
BSD
November 16, 2005 BSD