[Tutor] aquire user id - uid

[Sandip Bhattacharya]

Kirk Bailey wrote:
> I want to set the ownership of a file. The command os.setuid(usernumber) 
> demands a NUMBER to set. ok, how do I determine the uid # of a user name?
> 
For your own uid, use os.getuid()

For somebody else's, use pwd.getpwnam()

- Sandip

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