NAME

putpwent - write a password file entry

SYNOPSIS

#include
<stdio.h> #include
<sys/types.h> #include
<pwd.h>
int putpwent(const struct passwd * p , FILE * stream );

Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
putpwent(): _SVID_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION

The putpwent() function writes a password entry from the structure p in the file associated with stream.

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 putpwent() function returns 0 on success, or -1 if an error occurs. In the event of an error, errno is set to indicate the cause.

ERRORS

EINVAL

Invalid (NULL) argument given.

CONFORMING TO

SVr4.

SEE ALSO

endpwent(3), fgetpwent(3), getpw(3), getpwent(3), getpwnam(3), getpwuid(3), setpwent(3)

COLOPHON

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