NAME
fgetpwent - get password file entry SYNOPSIS
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struct passwd *fgetpwent(FILE *stream); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see featuretestmacros(7)): fgetpwent(): SVIDSOURCE DESCRIPTION The fgetpwent() function returns a pointer to a structure containing the broken out fields of a line in the file stream. The first time it is called it returns the first entry; thereafter, it returns successive entries. The file referred to by stream must have the same format as /etc/passwd (see passwd(5)). The passwd structure is defined in as follows: struct passwd { char *pwname; /* username */ char *pwpasswd; /* user password */ uidt pwuid; /* user ID */ gidt pwgid; /* group ID */ char *pwgecos; /* real name */ char *pwdir; /* home directory */ char *pwshell; /* shell program */ }; RETURN VALUE The fgetpwent() function returns a pointer to a passwd structure, or NULL if there are no more entries or an error occurs. In the event of an error, errno is set to indicate the cause. ERRORS ENOMEM Insufficient memory to allocate passwd structure. FILES /etc/passwd password database file CONFORMING TO SVr4. SEE ALSO endpwent(3), fgetpwentr(3), fopen(3), getpw(3), getpwent(3), getpw‐ nam(3), getpwuid(3), putpwent(3), setpwent(3), passwd(5) COLOPHON This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
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GNU 2013-04-19 FGETPWENT(3)