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From: "Dr. Tobias Quathamer" <toddy@debian.org>
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 0e3ff63..1d188aa 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 <joey@linux.de>
+.\" Modified Thu Dec 13 21:10:55 2001 by Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
.\"
.TH GETPWENT 3 2017-09-15 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
@@ -99,6 +100,21 @@ struct passwd {
};
.EE
.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
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