Getting system user or group ids by their names with Ruby
It can be done by calling getpwnam(3) and getgrnam(3).
require 'etc'
Etc.getpwnam('root').uid # => 0
Etc.getgrnam('nogroup').gid # => 65534For more information, please see the documentation Etc module.
Written by Chun-wei Kuo
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