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putpwent

putpwent(3C)															      putpwent(3C)

NAME

       putpwent() - write password file entry

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       is  the	inverse  of  (see getpwent(3C)).  Given a pointer to a structure as created by or writes a line on the stream f, which matches the
       format of

       ignores the audit ID and audit flag in the structure; and create the corresponding entries used in the protected  password  database,  used
       for  trusted  systems.	which produces entries that match the trusted password database file format, must be used to create these entries.
       See getprpwent(3).

DIAGNOSTICS

       returns non-zero if an error was detected during its operation; otherwise it returns zero.

WARNINGS

       HP-UX 11i Version 3 is the last release to support trusted systems functionality.

FILES

       System Password file

SEE ALSO

       getpwent(3C), getprpwent(3), passwd(4), prpwd(4), stdio(3S), fopen(3S), thread_safety(5).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

																      putpwent(3C)