fgetpwent

FGETPWENT(3)		  Linux Programmer’s Manual		 FGETPWENT(3)



NAME
       fgetpwent - get password file entry

SYNOPSIS
       #include <stdio.h>
       #include <sys/types.h>
       #include <pwd.h>

       struct passwd *fgetpwent(FILE *stream);

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 succes-
       sive  entries.	The  file  stream  must	 have  the  same  format   as
       /etc/passwd.

       The passwd structure is defined in <pwd.h> 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 */
	      };

RETURN VALUE
       The  fgetpwent()	 function  returns  the	 passwd structure, or NULL if
       there are no more entries or an error occurs.

ERRORS
       ENOMEM Insufficient memory to allocate passwd structure.

FILES
       /etc/passwd
	      password database file

CONFORMING TO
       SVID 3

SEE ALSO
       fgetpwent_r(3), getpwnam(3),  getpwuid(3),  getpwent(3),	 setpwent(3),
       endpwent(3), getpw(3), putpwent(3), passwd(5)



GNU				  1996-05-17			 FGETPWENT(3)