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From: larss@nada.kth.se (Lars Schylberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Real name of user
Keywords: username
Message-ID: <1876@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 5 Oct 89 18:51:29 GMT
Organization: Royal Institute Of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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I'm looking for a c-routine under UNIX environment that
could give the real name of the user just in the same
manner as getenv("USER") gives the username.  I know
that the real name is available in the /etc/passwd file.
But I guess that there have to be a routine to extract it.

I would prefer email answers since I'm usually not on these groups.

Many thanks in advance.

Lars.

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