GETPWNAM
NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN VALUE ERRORS FILES CONFORMING TO SEE ALSO
getpwnam, getpwuid - get password file entry
#include name); struct passwd *getpwuid(uid_t uid);
The getpwnam() function returns a pointer to a structure containing the broken out fields of a line from /etc/passwd for the entry that matches the user name name.
The getpwuid() function returns a pointer to a structure containing the broken out fields of a line from /etc/passwd for the entry that matches the user uid uid.
The passwd structure is defined in as follows:
struct passwd { char pw_name; / user name / char pw_passwd; / user password / uid_t pw_uid; / user id / gid_t pw_gid; / group id / char pw_gecos; / real name */ char *pw_dir; / home directory */ char *pw_shell; / shell program */ };
The getpwnam() and getpwuid() functions return a pointer to the passwd structure, or NULL if the matching entry is not found or an error occurs.
ENOMEM
Insufficient memory to allocate passwd structure.
/etc/passwd
password database file
SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3
fgetpwent(3), getgrnam(3), getpwent(3), setpwent(3), endpwent(3), getpw(3), putpwent(3), passwd(5)
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