user and group names from uid and gid
 

The title kinda says it all. I know that stat() in C or C++ will give me, amongst other things, the uid of the owner and the gid of the file. But how do I translate the integer uid into a name? The specific implementation I'm looking at is C++, but C ways of doing this work too.

Thanks.

Correlate it by looking it up in /etc/passwd and /etc/group respectively?


Cheers,
Tink

getgrgid() and getpwuid() for group and user name translation.

Thanks! Just what I was looking for.