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pwget(1) pwget(1)

NAME

pwget, grget - get password and group information

SYNOPSIS

pwget [-n name  -u uid]

grget [-n name  -g gid]

DESCRIPTION

pwget and grget locate and display information from /etc/passwd and /etc/group.

The standard output of pwget contains lines of colon-separated password information whose format is the

same as that used in the /etc/passwd ﬁle (see passwd(4)).

The standard output of grget contains lines of colon-separated group information whose format is the

same as that used in the /etc/group ﬁle (see group(4)).

With no options, pwget and grget get all entries with getpwent() or getgrent() respectively,

(see getpwent(3C) and getgrent(3C)), and output a line for each entry found.

Options

When an option is given, only a single entry is printed.

The options for pwget are:

-n name Output the ﬁrst entry that matches name using getpwnam() (see getpwent(3C)).

-u uid Output the ﬁrst entry that matches uid using getpwuid() (see getpwent(3C)).

The options for

grget are:

-n name Output the ﬁrst entry that matches name using getgrnam() (see getgrent(3C)).

-g gid Output the ﬁrst entry that matches gid using getgrgid() (see getgrent(3C)).

NETWORKING FEATURES

NFS

If Network Information System (NIS) is in use, these commands provide password and group information

based on the NIS version of the password and group databases in addition to the local password and group

ﬁles.

RETURN VALUE

These commands return 0 upon success, 1 when a speciﬁc search fails, and 2 upon error.

DEPENDENCIES

NFS:

WARNING: If the Network Information System network database is in use and the NIS client daemon

(ypbind) is not bound to a NIS server daemon (see ypserv(1M)), these utilities will wait until such a bind-

ing is established. These commands can be terminated in this condition by sending a SIGINT signal to

the process (see kill(1)).

See ypmatch(1), and ypserv(1M).

AUTHOR

pwget and grget were developed by HP.

FILES

/etc/group local group data ﬁle

/etc/passwd local password data ﬁle