Name
getpwnam, getpwuid — get password file entry
Synopsis
#include <pwd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
struct passwd *getpwnam(const char * name);
struct passwd *getpwuid(uid_t uid);
Description
The getpwnam function
returns a pointer to a structure containing the
broken out fields of a line from
/etc/passwd for
the entry that matches the user name
name.