hesiod_getpwnam, hesiod_getpwuid, hesiod_free_passwd - Hesiod functions for retrieving passwd information

       This  family  of  functions  allows you to retrieve passwd database information using Hesiod.  To perform
       lookups, you need an initialized Hesiod context; see hesiod(3) for  details.   You  may  look  up  passwd
       information by name or by uid; information is returned in the same format as by getpwnam or getpwuid.  It
       is  the  caller's  responsibility  to  call hesiod_free_passwd with the returned passwd entry to free the
       resources used by the passwd entry.

       Hesiod queries for passwd information are made using the ``passwd'' or ``uid'' Hesiod type, using  either
       the  username  or  the  decimal  representation of the uid as the Hesiod name.  The corresponding records
       should be a colon-separated list of fields giving the  username,  encrypted  password,  uid,  gid,  GECOS
       information, home directory, and shell of the user.

       These calls may fail for any of the reasons the routine hesiod_resolve may fail.

       hesiod_getpwnam, hesiod_getpwuid, hesiod_free_passwd - Hesiod functions for retrieving passwd information

       On failure, hesiod_getpwnam and hesiod_getpwuid return NULL and set the global variable errno to indicate
       the error.

hesiod(3)

                                                30 November 1996                                       HESIOD(3)

#include<hesiod.h>structpasswd*hesiod_getpwnam(void*context,constchar*name)structpasswd*hesiod_getpwuid(void*context,uid_tuid)voidhesiod_free_passwd(void*context,structpasswd*pw)ccfile.c-lhesiod