From: Rimantas Liubertas <rimantas@...>
Date: 2006-10-19T01:49:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Changing uid

> I really should know this, but I can't for the life of me remember how
> it goes.  I want to change users within a Ruby script on Linux, but
> Process::uid= only to takes an integer.  What's the best way to odo the
> username => UID lookup?

I wouldn't bet this is the best way, but it seams to work:

require 'etc'
puts Etc::getpwnam('username')[:uid]


Regards,
Rimantas
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