Advanced Programming in the
UNIX Environment

by W. Richard Stevens
Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series
0-201-56317-7 * Hardcover * 768 pages * ©1992
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Chapter 6. System Data Files and Information

Introduction * Password File * Shadow Passwords * Group File * Supplementary Group IDs * Other Data Files * Login Accounting * System Identification * Time and Date Routines * Summary

Example Relevant Functions
6.1 getpwnam: get password entry by name setpwent, getpwent, strcmp, endpwent

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