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getpwnam « System Functions « Perl
Perl
System Functions
getpwnam
1.
Test a UNIX password
2.
To display all the /etc/passwd fields for users passed on the command line
3.
Values Returned by getpwnam
4.
The getgrnam function retrieves the group file entry corresponding to a particular group name.