Replace unmaintained uid-number package with passwd-user.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # `@bedrock/core` ChangeLog
 
+## 6.1.4 - 2024-10-dd
+
+### Fixed
+- Replace unmaintained `uid-number` package with `passwd-user`.
+
 ## 6.1.3 - 2024-03-06
 
 ### Fixed

lib/loggers/fileLogger.js

@@ -19,13 +19,11 @@ import * as brUtil from '../util.js';
 import * as formatters from './formatters.js';
 import {config} from '../config.js';
 import {promises as fs} from 'node:fs';
+import {passwdUser} from 'passwd-user';
 import path from 'node:path';
-import {promisify} from 'node:util';
-import uidNumber from 'uid-number';
 import winston from 'winston';
 
 const cc = brUtil.config.main.computer();
-const getUserId = promisify(uidNumber);
 
 // config filenames
 // configured here instead of config.js due to util dependency issues
@@ -89,7 +87,7 @@ async function _chown(filename) {
       uid = process.getuid();
     } else {
       try {
-        uid = await getUserId(uid);
+        ({userIdentifier: uid} = await passwdUser(uid));
       } catch(e) {
         throw new brUtil.BedrockError(
           `Unable to convert user "${uid}" to a numeric user id. ` +

package.json

@@ -29,19 +29,19 @@
     "commander": "^9.2.0",
     "cycle": "^1.0.3",
     "fast-safe-stringify": "^2.1.1",
+    "passwd-user": "^4.0.0",
     "serialize-error": "^10.0.0",
     "triple-beam": "^1.3.0",
-    "uid-number": "^0.0.6",
     "winston": "^3.7.2",
     "winston-transport": "^4.5.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "eslint": "^8.57.0",
     "eslint-config-digitalbazaar": "^5.0.1",
-    "eslint-plugin-jsdoc": "^48.2.0",
-    "eslint-plugin-unicorn": "^51.0.1",
+    "eslint-plugin-jsdoc": "^50.4.1",
+    "eslint-plugin-unicorn": "^56.0.0",
     "jsdoc": "^4.0.2",
-    "jsdoc-to-markdown": "^8.0.1"
+    "jsdoc-to-markdown": "^9.0.2"
   },
   "engines": {
     "node": ">=18"