Bug#389378: getent: Ability to specify numeric names, rather than IDs

[Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.6.ds1-4
Severity: wishlist

getent passwd 1000

will look up the passwd database for a user whose uid number is 1000.
There seems no way to force getent to recognise that as the user name
instead, and so call getpwnam() rather than getpwuid(). Perhaps
something like

getent passwd --name 1000

Could be added?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-mh3.nim
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  tzdata                        2006k-1    Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time

libc6 recommends no packages.

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