• NAME
  
  hesiod_getpwnam, hesiod_getpwuid, hesiod_free_passwd - Hesiod functions for retrieving passwd information
• SYNOPSIS
  

  
   #include <hesiod.h>
  
   struct passwd *hesiod_getpwnam(void *context, const char *name)
   struct passwd *hesiod_getpwuid(void *context, uid_t uid)
   void hesiod_free_passwd(void *context, struct passwd *pw)
  
   cc file.c -lhesiod
  

• DESCRIPTION
  
  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.
• RETURN VALUES
  
  On failure, hesiod_getpwnam and hesiod_getpwuid return NULL and set the global variable errno to indicate the error.
• ERRORS
  
  These calls may fail for any of the reasons the routine hesiod_resolve may fail.
• SEE ALSO
  
  hesiod(3)

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