Re: shadow passwd in slink??

[Shao Zhang <shao@cia.com.au>]

Thanks. I found that out with a fgrep in the /usr/include directory.

But it is strange that it does not have a man page for it.


"Ole J. Tetlie" wrote:

> >-Shao Zhang <shao@cia.com.au>
> >
> >     I cannot find the shadow passwd in slink, anyone know here it is??
> >     I need the function fgetspent, but man returns no manual entry
> > found. I do have fgetpwent however.
> >
> >     Could someone tell me which package I need to get in order to have
> > this function??
>
> My guess is that you already have it in libc. Try
>
>         nm /usr/lib/libc.a | grep fgetspent
>
> I can't find any documentation either, but all you need
> is in /usr/include/shadow.h.
>
> Include <shadow.h> and use fgetspent like you would use fgetpwent
> except that it returns a struct spwd *. This struct is declared
> in shadow.h
>
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