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getspnam(3C)		 Standard C Library Functions		  getspnam(3C)

NAME
       getspnam,  getspnam_r,  getspent, getspent_r, setspent, endspent, fget‐
       spent, fgetspent_r - get password entry

SYNOPSIS
       #include <shadow.h>

       struct spwd *getspnam(const char *name);

       struct spwd *getspnam_r(const char *name, struct spwd *result,
	    char *buffer, int buflen);

       struct spwd *getspent(void);

       struct spwd *getspent_r(struct spwd *result, char *buffer,
	    int buflen);

       void setspent(void);

       void endspent(void);

       struct spwd *fgetspent(FILE *fp);

       struct spwd *fgetspent_r(FILE *fp, struct spwd *result,
	    char *buffer, int buflen);

DESCRIPTION
       These functions are used to obtain shadow password entries.   An	 entry
       may  come from any of the sources for shadow specified in the /etc/nss‐
       witch.conf file (see nsswitch.conf(4)).

       The getspnam() function searches for a shadow password entry  with  the
       login name specified by the character string argument name.

       The   setspent(), getspent(), and endspent() functions are used to enu‐
       merate shadow password entries from the database.

       The setspent() function sets (or resets) the enumeration to the	begin‐
       ning  of	 the  set of shadow password entries.  This function should be
       called before the first call to getspent(). Calls to  getspnam()	 leave
       the enumeration position in an indeterminate state.

       Successive  calls  to  getspent()  return  either successive entries or
       NULL, indicating the end of the enumeration.

       The endspent() function may be  called  to  indicate  that  the	caller
       expects to do no further shadow password retrieval operations; the sys‐
       tem may then  close the shadow password file, deallocate	 resources  it
       was  using, and so forth.  It is still allowed, but possibly less effi‐
       cient, for the process to call more  shadow  password  functions	 after
       calling endspent().

       The  fgetspent()	 function,  unlike the other functions above, does not
       use nsswitch.conf; it reads and parses the next line  from  the	stream
       fp,  which  is  assumed	to  have  the  format  of the shadow file (see
       shadow(4)).

   Reentrant Interfaces
       The  getspnam(), getspent(), and fgetspent() functions use  thread-spe‐
       cific  data  storage  that is reused in each call to one of these func‐
       tions by the same thread, making them safe to use but  not  recommended
       for multithreaded applications.

       The   getspnam_r(),  getspent_r(),  and fgetspent_r() functions provide
       reentrant interfaces for these operations.

       Each reentrant interface performs the same operation as	its  non-reen‐
       trant  counterpart,  named  by  removing the  _r suffix.	 The reentrant
       interfaces, however, use	 buffers  supplied  by	the  caller  to	 store
       returned	 results,  and	 are  safe for use in both single-threaded and
       multithreaded applications.

       Each reentrant interface takes the same argument as  its	 non-reentrant
       counterpart, as well as the following additional arguments.  The result
       argument must be a pointer to a struct spwd structure allocated by  the
       caller.	 On  successful	 completion,  the  function returns the shadow
       password entry in this  structure.  The	 buffer	 argument  must	 be  a
       pointer	to  a  buffer  supplied by the caller.	This buffer is used as
       storage space for the shadow password data.  All of the pointers within
       the returned struct spwd result point to data stored within this buffer
       (see RETURN VALUES). The buffer must be large enough to hold all of the
       data  associated	 with  the  shadow password entry. The buflen argument
       should give the size in bytes of the buffer indicated by buffer.

       For enumeration in multithreaded applications, the position within  the
       enumeration  is a process-wide property shared by all threads. The set‐
       spent() function may be used in a multithreaded application but	resets
       the  enumeration	 position for all threads.  If multiple threads inter‐
       leave calls to getspent_r(), the threads will enumerate	disjoint  sub‐
       sets of the shadow password database.

       Like its non-reentrant counterpart, getspnam_r() leaves the enumeration
       position in an indeterminate state.

RETURN VALUES
       Password entries are represented by the struct spwd  structure  defined
       in <shadow.h>:

	 struct spwd{
	     char	    *sp_namp;	  /* login name */
	     char	    *sp_pwdp;	  /* encrypted passwd */
	     int	    sp_lstchg;	  /* date of last change */
	     int	    sp_min;	  /* min days to passwd change */
	     int	    sp_max;	  /* max days to passwd change*/
	     int	    sp_warn;	  /* warning period */
	     int	    sp_inact;	  /* max days inactive */
	     int	    sp_expire;	  /* account expiry date */
	     unsigned int   sp_flag;	  /* not used */
	 };

       See shadow(4) for more information on the interpretation of this data.

       The   getspnam()and  getspnam_r()  functions each return a pointer to a
       struct spwd if they successfully locate the requested entry;  otherwise
       they return NULL.

       The   getspent(),  getspent_r(), fgetspent(), and fgetspent() functions
       each return a pointer to a struct spwd if they  successfully  enumerate
       an entry; otherwise they return NULL, indicating the end of the enumer‐
       ation.

       The  getspnam(), getspent(), and fgetspent() functions use  thread-spe‐
       cific data storage, so returned data must be copied before a subsequent
       call to any of these functions if the data is to be saved.

       When the pointer returned by the reentrant functions getspnam_r(), get‐
       spent_r(),  and	fgetspent_r()  is  non-null, it is always equal to the
       result pointer that was supplied by the caller.

ERRORS
       The reentrant functions	getspnam_r(), getspent_r(), and	 fgetspent_r()
       will  return  NULL  and set errno to ERANGE if the length of the buffer
       supplied by caller is not  large	 enough	 to  store  the	 result.   See
       intro(2)	 for  the  proper  usage and interpretation of errno in multi‐
       threaded applications.

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     │	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   │
       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
       │MT-Level		     │See "Reentrant  Interfaces"  │
       │			     │in DESCRIPTION.		   │
       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘

SEE ALSO
       nispasswd(1),  passwd(1),  yppasswd(1), intro(3), getlogin(3C),	getpw‐
       nam(3C), nsswitch.conf(4), passwd(4), shadow(4), attributes(5)

WARNINGS
       The reentrant interfaces getspnam_r(), getspent_r(), and	 fgetspent_r()
       are included in this release on an uncommitted basis only, and are sub‐
       ject to change or removal in future minor releases.

NOTES
       When compiling multithreaded applications, see intro(3), Notes On  Mul‐
       tithreaded  Applications,  for  information about the use of the _REEN‐
       TRANT flag.

       Use of the enumeration interfaces getspent() and	 getspent_r()  is  not
       recommended;  enumeration  is  supported	 for the shadow file, NIS, and
       NIS+, but in general is not efficient and may not be supported for  all
       database	 sources.   The semantics of enumeration are discussed further
       in nsswitch.conf(4).

       Access to shadow password information may be  restricted	 in  a	manner
       depending on the database source being used.  Access to the /etc/shadow
       file is generally restricted to processes running  with	the  effective
       uid  of	the  file  owner or the {PRIV_FILE_DAC_READ} privilege.	 Other
       database sources may impose stronger or less stringent restrictions.

       Empty fields in the database source return -1  values  for  all	fields
       except sp_pwdp and sp_flag, where the value returned is 0.

       When  NIS  is  used  as	the  database source,  the information for the
       shadow password entries is obtained  from  the  ``passwd.byname''  map.
       This map stores only the information for the sp_namp and sp_pwdp fields
       of the struct spwd structure. Shadow password entries obtained from NIS
       will contain the value -1 in the remainder of the fields.

       When NIS+ is used as the database source, and the caller lacks the per‐
       mission needed  to  retrieve  the  encrypted  password  from  the  NIS+
       ``passwd.org_dir''  table, the NIS+ service returns the string ``*NP*''
       instead	of  the	 actual	 encrypted  password  string.	The  functions
       described  on  this  page  will	then return the string ``*NP*'' to the
       caller as the value of the member sp_pwdp in the returned shadow	 pass‐
       word structure.

SunOS 5.10			  23 Jan 2008			  getspnam(3C)
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