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GNU/Linux	CentOS 2.1AS (Slurm)
	getpwuid(3)

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GETPWNAM

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
ERRORS
FILES
CONFORMING TO
SEE ALSO

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NAME

getpwnam, getpwuid − get password file entry

SYNOPSIS

#include <pwd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>

struct passwd *getpwnam(const char * name);

struct passwd *getpwuid(uid_t uid);

DESCRIPTION

The getpwnam() function returns a pointer to a structure containing the broken out fields of a line from /etc/passwd for the entry that matches the user name name.

The getpwuid() function returns a pointer to a structure containing the broken out fields of a line from /etc/passwd for the entry that matches the user uid uid.

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 getpwnam() and getpwuid() functions return a pointer to the passwd structure, or NULL if the matching entry is not found or an error occurs.

ERRORS

ENOMEM

Insufficient memory to allocate passwd structure.

FILES

/etc/passwd

password database file

CONFORMING TO

SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3

SEE ALSO

fgetpwent(3), getgrnam(3), getpwent(3), setpwent(3), endpwent(3), getpw(3), putpwent(3), passwd(5)

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getpwuid(3)