pwget(1)						      General Commands Manual							  pwget(1)

NAME

       pwget, grget - get password and group information

SYNOPSIS

       name | uid]

       name | gid]

DESCRIPTION

       and locate and display information from and

       The  standard  output  of  contains  lines  of  colon-separated password information whose format is the same as that used in the file (see
       passwd(4)).

       The standard output of contains lines of colon-separated group information whose format	is  the  same  as  that  used  in  the	file  (see
       group(4)).

       With no options, and get all entries with or respectively, (see getpwent(3C) and getgrent(3C)), and output a line for each entry found.

   Options
       When an option is given, only a single entry is printed.

       The options for are:

	      Output the first entry that matches
			     name using (see getpwent(3C)).

	      Output the first entry that matches
			     uid using (see getpwent(3C)).

       The options for are:

	      Output the first entry that matches
			     name using (see getgrent(3C)).

	      Output the first entry that matches
			     gid using (see getgrent(3C)).

NETWORKING FEATURES

   NFS
       If  Network Information System (NIS) is in use, these commands provide password and group information based on the NIS version of the pass-
       word and group databases in addition to the local password and group files.

RETURN VALUE

       These commands return upon success, when a specific search fails, and upon error.

DEPENDENCIES

   NFS:
       WARNING: If the Network Information System network database is in use and the NIS client daemon is not bound to a NIS  server  daemon  (see
       ypserv(1M)),  these utilities will wait until such a binding is established.  These commands can be terminated in this condition by sending
       a signal to the process (see kill(1)).

       See ypmatch(1), and ypserv(1M).

AUTHOR

       and were developed by HP.

FILES

       local group data file
       local password data file

SEE ALSO

       getgrent(3C), getpwent(3C), group(4), passwd(4).

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