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.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
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.\" References consulted:
.\"     Linux libc source code
.\"     Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
.\"     386BSD man pages
.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:43:46 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.TH putpwent 3 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages 6.9.1"
.SH NAME
putpwent \- write a password file entry
.SH LIBRARY
Standard C library
.RI ( libc ", " \-lc )
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <stdio.h>
.B #include <sys/types.h>
.B #include <pwd.h>
.P
.BI "int putpwent(const struct passwd *restrict " p \
", FILE *restrict " stream );
.fi
.P
.RS -4
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
.RE
.P
.BR putpwent ():
.nf
    Since glibc 2.19:
        _DEFAULT_SOURCE
    glibc 2.19 and earlier:
        _SVID_SOURCE
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR putpwent ()
function writes a password entry from the
structure \fIp\fP in the file associated with \fIstream\fP.
.P
The \fIpasswd\fP structure is defined in \fI<pwd.h>\fP as follows:
.P
.in +4n
.EX
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 */
};
.EE
.in
.SH RETURN VALUE
The
.BR putpwent ()
function returns 0 on success.
On failure, it returns \-1, and
.I errno
is set to indicate the error.
.SH ERRORS
.TP
.B EINVAL
Invalid (NULL) argument given.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
.BR attributes (7).
.TS
allbox;
lbx lb lb
l l l.
Interface	Attribute	Value
T{
.na
.nh
.BR putpwent ()
T}	Thread safety	MT-Safe locale
.TE
.SH STANDARDS
None.
.SH HISTORY
SVr4.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR endpwent (3),
.BR fgetpwent (3),
.BR getpw (3),
.BR getpwent (3),
.BR getpwnam (3),
.BR getpwuid (3),
.BR setpwent (3)