getent(1) [suse man page]

GETENT(1)							   GNU C Library							 GETENT(1)

NAME

       getent - get entries from administrative database

SYNOPSIS

       getent database [key ...]

DESCRIPTION

       The getent program gathers entries from the specified administrative database using the specified search keys.  Where database is one of
       passwd, group, hosts, services, protocols, or networks.

AUTHOR

       getent is written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> for the GNU C Library.

       This man page is written by Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org>

3rd Berkeley Distribution						2.1								 GETENT(1)

getent(1M)																getent(1M)

NAME

       getent - get entries from administrative database

SYNOPSIS

       getent database [key...]

       getent  gets  a list of entries from the administrative database specified by database. The information generally comes from one or more of
       the sources that are specified for the database in /etc/nsswitch.conf.

       database is the name of the database to be examined. This can be passwd, group, hosts, ipnodes, services, protocols, ethers, project,  net-
       works,  or  netmasks.  For  each  of these databases, getent uses the appropriate library routines described in getpwnam(3C), getgrnam(3C),
       gethostbyaddr(3NSL),   gethostbyname(3NSL),   getipnodebyaddr(3SOCKET),	 getipnodebyname(3SOCKET),   getservbyname(3SOCKET),   getprotoby-
       name(3SOCKET), ethers(3SOCKET), getprojbyname(3PROJECT) and getnetbyname(3SOCKET), respectively.

       Each  key  must	be  in a format appropriate for searching on the respective database. For example, it can be a username or numeric-uid for
       passwd; hostname or IP address for hosts; or service, service/protocol, port, or port/proto for services.

       getent prints out the database entries that match each of the supplied keys, one per line, in the format  of  the  matching  administrative
       file: passwd(4), group(4), project(4), hosts(4), ipnodes(4), services(4), protocols(4), ethers(3SOCKET), networks(4), or netmasks(4). If no
       key is given, all entries returned by the corresponding enumeration library routine, for example, getpwent() or gethostent(), are  printed.
       Enumeration is not supported on ipnodes.

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Successful completion.

       1	Command syntax was incorrect, an invalid option was used, or an internal error occurred.

       2	At least one of the specified entry names was not found in the database.

       3	There is no support for enumeration on this database.

       /etc/nsswitch.conf      name service switch configuration file

       /etc/passwd	       password file

       /etc/group	       group file

       /etc/inet/hosts	       IPv4 host name database

       /etc/inet/ipnodes       IPv4 and IPv6 host name database

       /etc/services	       Internet services and aliases

       /etc/project	       project file

       /etc/protocols	       protocol name database

       /etc/ethers	       Ethernet address to hostname database or domain

       /etc/networks	       network name database

       /etc/netmasks	       network mask database

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       ethers(3SOCKET),   getgrnam(3C),   gethostbyaddr(3NSL),	 gethostbyname(3NSL),	gethostent(3NSL),  getipnodebyaddr(3SOCKET),  getipnodeby-
       name(3SOCKET), getnetbyname(3SOCKET), getprojbyname(3PROJECT),  getprotobyname(3SOCKET),  getpwnam(3C),	getservbyname(3SOCKET),  group(4),
       hosts(4), ipnodes(4), netmasks(4), networks(4), nsswitch.conf(4), passwd(4), project(4), protocols(4), services(4), attributes(5)

								    1 Feb 2005								getent(1M)