This package is no longer relevant as Node.js 4 is unmaintained.
Node.js
os.userInfo()ponyfill
$ npm install --save user-info
const userInfo = require('user-info');
console.log(userInfo());
/*
{
uid: 501,
gid: 20,
username: 'sindresorhus',
homedir: '/Users/sindresorhus',
shell: '/bin/zsh'
}
*/See the os.userInfo() docs.
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