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+.\" $OpenBSD: user_from_uid.3,v 1.2 2022/08/05 00:53:57 jsg Exp $
+.\"
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+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 5 2022 $
+.Dt USER_FROM_UID 3
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm user_from_uid ,
+.Nm uid_from_user ,
+.Nm group_from_gid ,
+.Nm gid_from_group
+.Nd cache password and group entries
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In pwd.h
+.Ft int
+.Fn uid_from_user "const char *name" "uid_t *uid"
+.Ft const char *
+.Fn user_from_uid "uid_t uid" "int nouser"
+.In grp.h
+.Ft int
+.Fn gid_from_group "const char *name" "gid_t *gid"
+.Ft const char *
+.Fn group_from_gid "gid_t gid" "int nogroup"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn user_from_uid
+function returns the user name associated with the argument
+.Fa uid .
+The user name is cached so that multiple calls with the same
+.Fa uid
+do not require additional calls to
+.Xr getpwuid 3 .
+If there is no user associated with the
+.Fa uid ,
+a pointer is returned
+to a string representation of the
+.Fa uid ,
+unless the argument
+.Fa nouser
+is non-zero, in which case a null pointer is returned.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn uid_from_user
+function returns the user ID associated with the argument
+.Fa name .
+The user ID is cached so that multiple calls with the same
+.Fa name
+do not require additional calls to
+.Xr getpwnam 3 .
+If there is no user ID associated with the
+.Fa name ,
+the
+.Fn uid_from_user
+function returns -1;
+otherwise it stores the user ID at the location pointed to by
+.Fa uid
+and returns 0.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn group_from_gid
+function returns the group name associated with the argument
+.Fa gid .
+The group name is cached so that multiple calls with the same
+.Fa gid
+do not require additional calls to
+.Xr getgrgid 3 .
+If there is no group associated with the
+.Fa gid ,
+a pointer is returned
+to a string representation of the
+.Fa gid ,
+unless the argument
+.Fa nogroup
+is non-zero, in which case a null pointer is returned.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn gid_from_group
+function returns the group ID associated with the argument
+.Fa name .
+The group ID is cached so that multiple calls with the same
+.Fa name
+do not require additional calls to
+.Xr getgrnam 3 .
+If there is no group ID associated with the
+.Fa name ,
+the
+.Fn gid_from_group
+function returns -1;
+otherwise it stores the group ID at the location pointed to by
+.Fa gid
+and returns 0.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr getgrgid 3 ,
+.Xr getpwuid 3
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn user_from_uid
+and
+.Fn group_from_gid
+functions first appeared in
+.Bx 4.3 Reno
+in libutil and moved to libc in
+.Bx 4.4 .
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn uid_from_user
+and
+.Fn gid_from_group
+functions were ported from
+.Nx
+and first appeared in
+.Ox 6.4 .