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1 | .\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) |
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12 | .\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this |
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20 | .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by |
| 21 | .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. | |
| 22 | .\" | |
| 23 | .\" References consulted: | |
| 24 | .\" Linux libc source code | |
| 25 | .\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) | |
| 26 | .\" 386BSD man pages | |
| 27 | .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:43:46 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) | |
| 28 | .TH PUTPWENT 3 1993-04-09 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" | |
| 29 | .SH NAME | |
| 30 | putpwent \- write a password file entry | |
| 31 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 32 | .nf | |
| 33 | .B #include <stdio.h> | |
| 34 | .B #include <sys/types.h> | |
| 35 | .B #include <pwd.h> | |
| 36 | .sp | |
| 37 | .BI "int putpwent(const struct passwd *" p ", FILE *" stream ); | |
| 38 | .fi | |
| 39 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 63aa9df0 | 40 | The \fBputpwent\fP() function writes a password entry from the |
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41 | structure \fIp\fP in the file associated with \fIstream\fP. |
| 42 | .PP | |
| 43 | The \fIpasswd\fP structure is defined in \fI<pwd.h>\fP as follows: | |
| 44 | .sp | |
| b9f02710 | 45 | .in +0.5i |
| fea681da | 46 | .nf |
| fea681da | 47 | struct passwd { |
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48 | char *pw_name; /* user name */ |
| 49 | char *pw_passwd; /* user password */ | |
| 50 | uid_t pw_uid; /* user ID */ | |
| 51 | gid_t pw_gid; /* group ID */ | |
| 52 | char *pw_gecos; /* real name */ | |
| 53 | char *pw_dir; /* home directory */ | |
| 54 | char *pw_shell; /* shell program */ | |
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55 | }; |
| 56 | .ta | |
| 57 | .fi | |
| b9f02710 | 58 | .in -0.5i |
| fea681da | 59 | .SH "RETURN VALUE" |
| 63aa9df0 | 60 | The \fBputpwent\fP() function returns 0 on success, or \-1 if an error |
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61 | occurs. |
| 62 | .SH ERRORS | |
| 63 | .TP | |
| 64 | .B EINVAL | |
| 65 | Invalid (NULL) argument given. | |
| 66 | .SH "CONFORMING TO" | |
| 68e1685c | 67 | SVr4 |
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68 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| 69 | .BR endpwent (3), | |
| 70 | .BR fgetpwent (3), | |
| 71 | .BR getpw (3), | |
| 72 | .BR getpwent (3), | |
| 73 | .BR getpwnam (3), | |
| 74 | .BR getpwuid (3), | |
| 75 | .BR setpwent (3) |