NAME
userinfo
- displays user information
SYNOPSIS
userinfo
[-e]
user
DESCRIPTION
The
userinfo
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
SEE ALSO
passwd(5),
group(8),
user(8),
useradd(8),
userdel(8)
HISTORY
The
userinfo
utility first appeared in
NetBSD1.5.
It is based on the
addnerd
package by the same author.
AUTHORS
The
userinfo
utility was written by
Alistair G. Crooks
<agc@NetBSD.org>.