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 successive 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

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