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From: "Dr. Tobias Quathamer" <toddy@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 01:20:19 +0100
Subject: getpwent.3
---
man/man3/getpwent.3 | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man/man3/getpwent.3 b/man/man3/getpwent.3
index d28ef0c..0856720 100644
--- a/man/man3/getpwent.3
+++ b/man/man3/getpwent.3
@@ -75,6 +75,21 @@ 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.
.P
For more information about the fields of this structure, see
.BR passwd (5).
@@ -184,4 +199,6 @@ POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
.BR getpwnam (3),
.BR getpwuid (3),
.BR putpwent (3),
+.\" Next line rejected upstream
+.BR shadow (5),
.BR passwd (5)
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