Method: LinuxStat::User.uid_by_username

Defined in:
lib/linux_stat/user.rb

.uid_by_username(username = get_user) ⇒ Object

uid_by_username(username = get_user)

Where username is the username to look for, by default it is the current user.

It returns the uid by the username.

For example:

LinuxStat::User.uid_by_username('root')

=> 0

The return type is Integer.

But if user passed doesn’t exist or if the info isn’t available, it will return nil.



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# File 'lib/linux_stat/user.rb', line 247

def uid_by_username(username = get_user)
  return nil unless passwd_readable?

  uid = nil
  passwd.each do |x|
    splitted = x.split(?:.freeze)
    if splitted[0] == username
      uid = splitted[2].to_i
      break
    end
  end
  uid
end