($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.