Series 300 Only

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 of the format used in the /etc/passwd file (see passwd(4)).

The standard output of grget contains lines of colon-separated group information of the format used in the /etc/group file (see group(4)).

With no options, pwget and grget get all entries with getpwent(3C) or getgrent(3C), respectively, 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 (on getpwent(3C)).

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

The options for grget are:

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

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

NETWORKING FEATURES

NFS

These commands provide a way to access password and group information without regard to whether the Yellow Pages (YP) network database is in use or not. 

RETURN VALUE

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

DEPENDENCIES

NFS

WARNINGS
If the Yellow Pages network database is in use and the YP client daemon (ypbind) is not bound to a YP server daemon (see ypserv(1M)), these utilities will wait until such a binding is established.  These commands can be terminated in this condition by sending a SIGINT signal to the process (see kill(1)).

SEE ALSO
ypmatch(1), ypserv(1M).

AUTHOR

Pwget and grget were developed by HP. 

FILES

/etc/group local group data file

/etc/passwd local password data file

SEE ALSO

getgrent(3C), getpwent(3C), group(4), passwd(4). 

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