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authorKarel Zak2016-10-14 13:21:17 +0200
committerKarel Zak2017-09-18 11:48:56 +0200
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parentsu: consolidate tty name usage (diff)
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login: add xgetpwnam()
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/pwdutils.c')
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diff --git a/lib/pwdutils.c b/lib/pwdutils.c
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+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+#include "c.h"
+#include "pwdutils.h"
+#include "xalloc.h"
+
+/* Returns allocated passwd and allocated pwdbuf to store passwd strings
+ * fields. In case of error returns NULL and set errno, for unknown user set
+ * errno to EINVAL
+ */
+struct passwd *xgetpwnam(const char *username, char **pwdbuf)
+{
+ struct passwd *pwd = NULL, *res = NULL;
+ int rc;
+
+ if (!pwdbuf || !username)
+ return NULL;
+
+ *pwdbuf = xmalloc(UL_GETPW_BUFSIZ);
+ pwd = xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct passwd));
+
+ errno = 0;
+ rc = getpwnam_r(username, pwd, *pwdbuf, UL_GETPW_BUFSIZ, &res);
+ if (rc != 0) {
+ errno = rc;
+ goto failed;
+ }
+ if (!res) {
+ errno = EINVAL;
+ goto failed;
+ }
+ return pwd;
+failed:
+ free(pwd);
+ free(*pwdbuf);
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+
+#ifdef TEST_PROGRAM
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+ char *pwdbuf = NULL;
+ struct passwd *pwd = NULL;
+
+ if (argc != 2) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s <username>\n", argv[0]);
+ return EXIT_FAILURE;
+ }
+
+ pwd = xgetpwnam(argv[1], &pwdbuf);
+ if (!pwd)
+ err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to get %s pwd entry", argv[1]);
+
+ printf("Username: %s\n", pwd->pw_name);
+ printf("UID: %d\n", pwd->pw_uid);
+ printf("HOME: %s\n", pwd->pw_dir);
+ printf("GECO: %s\n", pwd->pw_gecos);
+
+ free(pwd);
+ free(pwdbuf);
+ return EXIT_SUCCESS;
+}
+#endif /* TEST_PROGRAM */