Scheme 48 Manual -- Users and groups

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Users and groups

User-ids and group-ids are boxed integers representing Unix users and groups. The procedures in this section are in structures posix-users and posix.

(user-id? x) -> boolean
(user-id=? user-id0 user-id1) -> boolean
(user-id->integer user-id) -> integer
(integer->user-id integer) -> user-id

(group-id? x) -> boolean
(group-id=? group-id0 group-id1) -> boolean
(group-id->integer group-id) -> integer
(integer->group-id integer) -> group-id

User-ids and group-ids have their own own predicates and comparison, boxing, and unboxing functions.

(user-id->user-info user-id) -> user-info
(name->user-info string) -> user-info

These return the user info for a user identified by user-id or name.

(user-info? x) -> boolean
(user-info-name user-info) -> string
(user-info-id user-info) -> user-id
(user-info-group user-info) -> group-id
(user-info-home-directory user-info) -> string
(user-info-shell user-info) -> string

A user-info contains information about a user. Available are the user's name, id, group, home directory, and shell.

(group-id->group-info group-id) -> group-info
(name->group-info string) -> group-info

These return the group info for a group identified by group-id or name.

(group-info? x) -> boolean
(group-info-name group-info) -> string
(group-info-id group-info) -> group-id
(group-info-members group-info) -> user-ids

A group-info contains information about a group. Available are the group's name, id, and a list of members.

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