USERINFO(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual USERINFO(8)
NAME
userinfo - displays user information
SYNOPSIS
userinfo [-e] user
DESCRIPTION
The userinfo utility retrieves the user information from the system. The
userinfo utility is only available if built with EXTENSIONS. See user(8)
for more information.
The following command line option is recognised:
-e Return 0 if the user exists, and non-zero if the user does not
exist, on the system. No information is displayed. This form of
the command is useful for scripts which need to check whether a
particular user name or uid is already in use on the system.
The user argument may either be a user's name, or a uid.
EXIT STATUS
The userinfo utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO
passwd(5), group(8), user(8), useradd(8), userdel(8)
HISTORY
The userinfo utility first appeared in NetBSD 1.5. It is based on the
addnerd package by the same author.
AUTHORS
The userinfo utility was written by Alistair G. Crooks <
[email protected]>.
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 November 16, 2005 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8