NAME
userinfo —
displays user information
SYNOPSIS
userinfo |
[-e] user |
DESCRIPTION
Theuserinfo utility retrieves the user information from
the system. The userinfo utility is only available if
built with EXTENSIONS. See
user(8) for more information.
The following command line option is recognised:
-e- Return 0 if the user exists, and non-zero if the user does not exist, on the system. No information is displayed. This form of the command is useful for scripts which need to check whether a particular user name or uid is already in use on the system.
The user argument may either be a user's name, or a uid.
EXIT STATUS
The userinfo utility exits 0 on
success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The userinfo utility first appeared in
NetBSD 1.5. It is based on the
addnerd package by the same author.
AUTHORS
The userinfo utility was written by
Alistair G. Crooks
⟨agc@NetBSD.org⟩.