redox_users

Redox OS APIs for accessing users and groups information.

High level APIs for:

• Getting the current process effective user ID.
• Getting the current process user ID.
• Getting the current process effective group ID.
• Getting the current process group ID.
• Manipulating User and Group information (including adding, removing, and modifying groups and users, in addition to other functionality, see docs)

We recommend to use these APIs instead of directly manipulating the /etc/group and /etc/passwd as this is an implementation detail and might change in the future.

Using redox_users

Make sure you have Rust nightly.

Add redox_users to Cargo.toml:

[dependencies.redox_users]
git = "https://github.com/redox-os/users.git"

then import it in your main file:

extern crate redox_users;

And redox_users is now ready to roll!