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Values Returned by getpwnam

($name, $passwd, $uid,$gid, $quota, $comment,$gcos, $dir, $shell) = getpwnam($username);              Value      Contains $name      User name. $passwd      Encrypted password. $uid      User ID. $gid      Group ID. $quota      Allowed disk quota, often used for other purposes.  $comment      Generally unused. $gcos      Often contains full user name. $dir      User's home directory. $shell      Program that gets launched for the user as the login shell.