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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Ronan.Keryell@enstb.org: tramp sudo:: and version control on RCS root controlled files]
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:53:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nqveyml43n.fsf@alcatel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1132508810.3050.102.camel@localhost> (Andre Spiegel's message of "Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:46:50 +0100")

Andre Spiegel <spiegel@gnu.org> writes:

> A related operation, also used in VC, is to find a user's login name,
> given the uid of that user.  In the local case, Emacs does it via
> (user-login-name UID), which is implemented as getpwuid().  How would
> you do that for a remote file?  I'm currently baffled as to how I could
> get that information at the shell level, sans grepping /etc/passwd of
> course.

# touch /tmp/foo; chown UID /tmp/foo

Then you can retrieve the user name via file-attributes, with
ID-FORMAT 'string.

Best regards, Michael.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-21  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1EYXgy-0001gS-J5@fencepost.gnu.org>
2005-11-19 11:17 ` [Ronan.Keryell@enstb.org: tramp sudo:: and version control on RCS root controlled files] Andre Spiegel
2005-11-20 17:02   ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-20 17:46     ` Andre Spiegel
2005-11-20 19:03       ` Andreas Schwab
2005-11-20 22:49       ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-21 10:11         ` Andre Spiegel
2005-11-21  9:53       ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2005-11-20 19:28     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-20 22:50       ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-20 23:23   ` Richard M. Stallman

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