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AC_CHECK_USER
1.1 (2002/09/12) Miscellaneous @ ac-archive-0.5.39
Gleen Salmon <gleensalmon@yahoo.com>
Check if the specified UNIX user exists, if yes set your environment variable to that username else unset your environment variable
Example:
AC_CHECK_USER(USER, [gleensalmon])
if test x$USER = xgleensalmon; then
bla..bla..bla..
else
bla..bla..bla..
fi
Besides checking existence, this macro also set these environment variables upon completion:
USER_HOME = home directory of user, written in /etc/passwd
AC_DEFUN([AC_CHECK_USER],[ AC_MSG_CHECKING([for user $2]) if grep ^$2: /etc/passwd > /dev/null; then $1=$2 USER_HOME=`grep ^$2: /etc/passwd | sed "s/^\([[^:]]*:\)\{5\}\([[^:]]*\):[[^:]]*$/\2/"` AC_MSG_RESULT([yes]) else unset $1 unset USER_HOME AC_MSG_RESULT([no]) fi;dnl ])