// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
// Package user allows user account lookups by name or id.
package user
import (
"strconv"
)
var (
userImplemented = true // set to false by lookup_stubs.go's init
groupImplemented = true // set to false by lookup_stubs.go's init
)
// User represents a user account.
type User struct {
// Uid is the user ID.
// On POSIX systems, this is a decimal number representing the uid.
// On Windows, this is a security identifier (SID) in a string format.
// On Plan 9, this is the contents of /dev/user.
Uid string
// Gid is the primary group ID.
// On POSIX systems, this is a decimal number representing the gid.
// On Windows, this is a SID in a string format.
// On Plan 9, this is the contents of /dev/user.
Gid string
// Username is the login name.
Username string
// Name is the user's real or display name.
// It might be blank.
// On POSIX systems, this is the first (or only) entry in the GECOS field
// list.
// On Windows, this is the user's display name.
// On Plan 9, this is the contents of /dev/user.
Name string
// HomeDir is the path to the user's home directory (if they have one).
HomeDir string
}
// Group represents a grouping of users.
//
// On POSIX systems Gid contains a decimal number representing the group ID.
type Group struct {
Gid string // group ID
Name string // group name
}
// UnknownUserIdError is returned by LookupId when a user cannot be found.
type UnknownUserIdError int
func (e UnknownUserIdError) Error() string {
return "user: unknown userid " + strconv.Itoa(int(e))
}
// UnknownUserError is returned by Lookup when
// a user cannot be found.
type UnknownUserError string
func (e UnknownUserError) Error() string {
return "user: unknown user " + string(e)
}
// UnknownGroupIdError is returned by LookupGroupId when
// a group cannot be found.
type UnknownGroupIdError string
func (e UnknownGroupIdError) Error() string {
return "group: unknown groupid " + string(e)
}
// UnknownGroupError is returned by LookupGroup when
// a group cannot be found.
type UnknownGroupError string
func (e UnknownGroupError) Error() string {
return "group: unknown group " + string(e)
}