DESCRIPTION

     The fgetpwent() function returns a pointer  to  a  structure
     containing  the  broken  out  fields  of  a line in the file
     stream.  The first time it is called it  returns  the  first
     entry;  thereafter, it returns successive entries.  The file
     stream must have the same format as /etc/passwd.

     The passwd structure is defined in <pwd.h> as follows:

          struct passwd {
                  char    *pw_name;       /* user name */
                  char    *pw_passwd;     /* user password */
                  uid_t   pw_uid;         /* user id */
                  gid_t   pw_gid;         /* group id */
                  char    *pw_gecos;      /* real name */
                  char    *pw_dir;        /* home directory */
                  char    *pw_shell;      /* shell program */
          };

RETURN VALUE

     The fgetpwent() function returns the  passwd  structure,  or
     NULL if there are no more entries or an error occurs.

ERRORS

     ENOMEM
          Insufficient memory to allocate passwd structure.

FILES

     /etc/passwd
          password database file

CONFORMING TO

     SVID 3

SEE ALSO

     getpwnam(3),    getpwuid(3),    getpwent(3),    endpwent(3),
     getpw(3), putpwent(3), passwd(5).