USERINFO(8)             OpenBSD System Manager's Manual            USERINFO(8)

NAME
     userinfo - displays user information

SYNOPSIS
     userinfo [-ev] user

DESCRIPTION
     The userinfo utility retrieves the user information from the system.

     The following command line options are 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.

     -v      perform any actions in a verbose manner.

     The user argument may either be a user's name, or a UID.

     The userinfo utility exits 0 if the user name or UID exists, and non-zero
     if it does not.

FILES
     /etc/usermgmt.conf

SEE ALSO
     passwd(5), usermgmt.conf(5)

HISTORY
     The userinfo utility first appeared in OpenBSD 2.7.

AUTHORS
     The userinfo utility was written by Alistair G. Crooks <agc@NetBSD.org>.

OpenBSD 4.1                    November 30, 1999                             1
