Manual page for putspent(3C)
putspent - write shadow password file entry
SYNOPSIS
#include <shadow.h>
int putspent(const struct spwd *p,
FILE *fp);
MT-LEVEL
Unsafe
DESCRIPTION
The
putspent()
routine is the inverse of
getspent().
Given a pointer to a
spwd
structure created by the
getspent()
routine (or the
getspnam()
routine), the
putspent()
routine writes a line on the stream
fp,
which matches the format of
/etc/shadow.
The
spwd
structure contains the following members:
-
char *sp_namp;
char *sp_pwdp;
long sp_lstchg;
long sp_min;
long sp_max;
long sp_warn;
long sp_inact;
long sp_expire;
unsigned long sp_flag;
If the sp_min, sp_max, sp_lstchg,
sp_warn, sp_inact, or sp_expire
field of the
spwd
structure is -1, or if sp_flag is 0,
the corresponding
/etc/shadow
field is cleared.
RETURN VALUES
The
putspent()
routine returns non-zero if an error was detected during its operation,
otherwise zero.
SEE ALSO
getpwnam.3c
getspnam.3c
putpwent.3c
NOTES
This routine is for internal use only, compatibility is not guaranteed.
Do not use without also using
putpwent()
to update the password file.
The use of this function is discouraged.
Created by unroff & hp-tools.
© by Hans-Peter Bischof. All Rights Reserved (1997).
Last modified 21/April/97
