# User/Group Record Lookup API via Varlink
-JSON User/Group Records (as described in the [JSON User Records](USER_RECORD)
-and [JSON Group Records](GROUP_RECORD) documents) that are defined on the
+JSON User/Group Records (as described in the [JSON User Records](/USER_RECORD)
+and [JSON Group Records](/GROUP_RECORD) documents) that are defined on the
local system may be queried with a [Varlink](https://varlink.org/) API.
This API takes both the role of what
[`getpwnam(3)`](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/getpwnam.3.html) and