linux man page for fgetpwent

Query: fgetpwent

OS: linux

Section: 3

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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); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): fgetpwent(): _SVID_SOURCE
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 successive entries. The file referred to by stream must have the same format as /etc/passwd (see passwd(5)). The passwd structure is defined in <pwd.h> as follows: struct passwd { char *pw_name; /* username */ 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 a pointer to a 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
SVr4.
SEE ALSO
endpwent(3), fgetpwent_r(3), fopen(3), getpw(3), getpwent(3), getpwnam(3), getpwuid(3), putpwent(3), setpwent(3), passwd(5)
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
GNU
2008-07-10 FGETPWENT(3)
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putpwent(3) - php
putpwent(3) - xfree86
fgetpwent(3) - php
fgetpwent(3) - minix
putpwent(3) - minix
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