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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),	getpw‐
       nam(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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