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.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
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.\" Linux libc source code
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.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
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.\" 386BSD man pages
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.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:43:46 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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.TH PUTPWENT 3 2007-07-26 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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putpwent \- write a password file entry
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.B #include <stdio.h>
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.B #include <sys/types.h>
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.B #include <pwd.h>
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.BI "int putpwent(const struct passwd *" p ", FILE *" stream );
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.fi
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.in -4n
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Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
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.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
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.in
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.sp
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.BR putpwent ():
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_SVID_SOURCE
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.BR putpwent ()
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function writes a password entry from the
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structure \fIp\fP in the file associated with \fIstream\fP.
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.PP
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The \fIpasswd\fP structure is defined in \fI<pwd.h>\fP as follows:
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.sp
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.in +4n
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.nf
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struct passwd {
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char *pw_name; /* user name */
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char *pw_passwd; /* user password */
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uid_t pw_uid; /* user ID */
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gid_t pw_gid; /* group ID */
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char *pw_gecos; /* real name */
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char *pw_dir; /* home directory */
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char *pw_shell; /* shell program */
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};
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.fi
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.in
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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The
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.BR putpwent ()
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function returns 0 on success, or \-1 if an error
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occurs.
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.SH ERRORS
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.TP
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.B EINVAL
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Invalid (NULL) argument given.
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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SVr4
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR endpwent (3),
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.BR fgetpwent (3),
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.BR getpw (3),
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.BR getpwent (3),
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.BR getpwnam (3),
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.BR getpwuid (3),
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.BR setpwent (3)
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