From: "Dr. Tobias Quathamer" Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 01:20:19 +0100 Subject: getpwent.3 --- man3/getpwent.3 | 20 +++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man3/getpwent.3 b/man3/getpwent.3 index cda1848..56786dd 100644 --- a/man3/getpwent.3 +++ b/man3/getpwent.3 @@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ .\" 386BSD man pages .\" .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 19:22:14 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) -.\" Modified Mon May 27 21:37:47 1996 by Martin Schulze (joey@linux.de) +.\" Modified Mon May 27 21:37:47 1996 by Martin Schulze +.\" Modified Thu Dec 13 21:10:55 2001 by Martin Schulze .\" .TH GETPWENT 3 2016-03-15 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME @@ -99,6 +100,21 @@ struct passwd { }; .fi .in +.\" Next paragraph rejected upstream +.PP +When +.BR shadow (5) +passwords are enabled (which is default on many GNU/Linux +installations) the content of +.I pw_passwd +is usually not very useful. In such a case most passwords are stored +in a separate file. +.PP +The variable +.I pw_shell +may be empty, in which case the system will execute the default shell +.RB ( /bin/sh ) +for the user. .PP For more information about the fields of this structure, see .BR passwd (5). @@ -197,6 +213,8 @@ field is not specified in POSIX, but is present on most implementations. .BR getpwnam (3), .BR getpwuid (3), .BR putpwent (3), +.\" Next line rejected upstream +.BR shadow (5), .BR passwd (5) .SH COLOPHON This page is part of release 4.10 of the Linux