From: Fredrik Fornwall <fredrikfornwall@...>
Date: 2005-06-11T07:57:16+09:00
Subject: Re: get username of file owner?

Once you have the uid of a user you can get the user name by using
the getpwuid function in the Etc module 
(http://rubygarden.org/ruby/ruby?ProgrammingRubyTwo/Etc).

Example:

require 'etc'
uid = File.stat('testfile').uid
puts 'Owner name: ', Etc.getpwuid(uid).name

On Friday 10 June 2005 23.46, John Fry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to get the username of the owner of a file in my Ruby
> program.  Getting the uid is easy:
>
> File.stat("testfile").uid  	->  	501
>
> Anyone have a suggestion on how to get the actual username, like
> "smith"?
>
> I'm on Solaris without root and /etc/passwd does not list explicit
> usernames.
>
> Best,
>
> John