getpwnam(p1) public

Returns the /etc/passwd information for the user with specified login name.

The information is returned as a Struct::Passwd; see getpwent above for details.

e.g. * Etc.getpwnam(‘root’) -> #<struct Struct::Passwd name=“root”, passwd=“x”, uid=0, gid=0, gecos=“root”,dir=“/root”, shell=“/bin/bash”>

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