HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 3 Library Functions N-Z (vol 7)

putspent(3C) putspent(3C)

NAME

putspent - write shadow password ﬁle entry

SYNOPSIS

#include <shadow.h>

int putspent (const struct spwd *sp, FILE *f);

DESCRIPTION

putspent() is the inverse of getspent() . See getspent(3C). Given a pointer to an

spwd structure

as created by the

getspent() or getspnam() functions,

putspent() writes a line on the stream f,

which matches the format of

/etc/shadow .

APPLICATION USAGE

In a multithreaded application,

putspent() is thread-safe. It is not async-cancel-safe. A cancellation

point may occur when a thread is executing

putspent() .

RETURN VALUE

putspent() returns non-zero if an error was detected during its operation. Otherwise it returns zero.

FILES

/etc/shadow shadow password ﬁle.