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<refentrytitle>getpwnam</refentrytitle>
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<refname>getpwnam</refname>
<refname>getpwuid</refname>
<refpurpose>get password file entry</refpurpose>
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<refsynopsisdiv><title>Synopsis</title>
<synopsis>
#include &lt;pwd.h>
#include &lt;sys/types.h>

struct passwd *getpwnam(const char * name);

struct passwd *getpwuid(uid_t uid);
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<refsect1><title>Description</title>
<para>The <function>getpwnam</function> function
returns a pointer to a structure containing the
broken out fields of a line from
<filename>/etc/passwd</filename> for
the entry that matches the user name
<parameter>name</parameter>.
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