in reply to Re: User Existance?
in thread User Existance?

Hi there, Thanks for that. How do i go about using getpwnam to determin whether a user exists? I am currently using it to tell if they have a home directory, and basing whether they exist on that, but it would be much better if i could just use it to find if the account exists.

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Re: Re: Re: User Existance?
by The Mad Hatter (Priest) on May 17, 2003 at 20:37 UTC
    As I said earlier, 
    my $username = "someusername";
print "Username '$username' exists!\n" if getpwnam($username);

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      Hi, How comes this does not detect the user root?
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