User unique ID

[guiligan]

Hello,

I searched all around but couldn't find the answer. Does cPanel creates a Unique user id that never changes for each user? If so, how can I retrieve it? If not, how is the best way to make this?

I'm trying to integrate some of my site systems with cPanel for each user.

Thank you in advance,
Guilherme Mori

[yapluka]

You can fetch usernames, userids and groupids from /etc/passwd

[guiligan]

You can fetch usernames, userids and groupids from /etc/passwd

Hey yapluka, thanks for answering!
On passwd i have something like this
user:x:512:512::/path:/another/path
the first number is userid and the second is groupid?
And is there a way the get this using the cPanel API?

Thank you,
Guilherme Mori

[guiligan]

Ok, managed to get the info using the passwd. Can someone tell me which number is the userid?

thank you!

[cPanelMatt]

The first number is the UID.

if the process is already running as the user (php under suphp, suexec cgi, cpanel) you can always use "getpwuid" which is available in both php and perl.