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From: "Dr. Tobias Quathamer" <toddy@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 01:20:55 +0100
Subject: getpwnam.3
---
man/man3/getpwnam.3 | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man/man3/getpwnam.3 b/man/man3/getpwnam.3
index 3ad26d0..ba18988 100644
--- a/man/man3/getpwnam.3
+++ b/man/man3/getpwnam.3
@@ -188,10 +188,18 @@ structure.
.TP
.B ERANGE
Insufficient buffer space supplied.
+.SH NOTE
+The user password database mostly refers to \fI/etc/passwd\fP.
+However, with recent systems it also refers to network wide databases
+using NIS, LDAP and other local files as configured in
+\fI/etc/nsswitch.conf\fP.
.SH FILES
.TP
.I /etc/passwd
local password database file
+.TP
+.I /etc/nsswitch.conf
+System Databases and Name Service Switch configuration file
.SH ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
.BR attributes (7).
@@ -341,4 +349,5 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
.BR getspnam (3),
.BR putpwent (3),
.BR setpwent (3),
+.BR nsswitch.conf (5),
.BR passwd (5)
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