USER-INFO.ECLASS

Section: eclass-manpages (5)
Updated: Oct 2025
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NAME

user-info.eclass - Read-only access to user and group information

SUPPORTED EAPIS

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FUNCTIONS

egetent <database> <key>

Small wrapper for getent (Linux), nidump (< Mac OS X 10.5), dscl (Mac OS X 10.5), and pw (FreeBSD) used in enewuser()/enewgroup().

Supported databases: group passwd Warning: This function can be used only in pkg_* phases when ROOT is valid.

egetusername <uid>

Gets the username for given UID.

egetgroupname <gid>

Gets the group name for given GID.

egethome <user>

Gets the home directory for the specified user.

egetshell <user>

Gets the shell for the specified user.

egetcomment <user>

Gets the comment field for the specified user.

egetgroups <user>

Gets all the groups user belongs to. The primary group is returned first, then all supplementary groups. Groups are ','-separated.

MAINTAINERS

[email protected] (Linux)
Michał Górny <[email protected]> (NetBSD)

REPORTING BUGS

Please report bugs via https://bugs.gentoo.org/

FILES

user-info.eclass

SEE ALSO

ebuild(5)
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/log/eclass/user-info.eclass

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Index

NAME

SUPPORTED EAPIS

FUNCTIONS

MAINTAINERS

REPORTING BUGS

FILES

SEE ALSO

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