From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2002-04-25T02:57:08+09:00
Subject: User and Group name => user id and group id

This is kind of a trivial question, but I can't find reference for a
function that returns a numeric user id given a user name (under Linux).  I
could parse the passwd and group file, but it seems there'd be a built-in
function for it somewhere.

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Sean O'Dell