root/usr/src/cmd/getent/dogetpw.c
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/*
 * Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 * Use is subject to license terms.
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <pwd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include "getent.h"

/*
 * getpwnam - get entries from password database
 */
int
dogetpw(const char **list)
{
        struct passwd *pwp;
        int rc = EXC_SUCCESS;
        char *ptr;
        uid_t uid;


        if (list == NULL || *list == NULL) {
                while ((pwp = getpwent()) != NULL)
                        (void) putpwent(pwp, stdout);
        } else {
                for (; *list != NULL; list++) {
                        errno = 0;

                        /*
                         * Here we assume that the argument passed is
                         * a uid, if it can be completely transformed
                         * to a long integer. So we check for uid in
                         * the database and if we fail then we check
                         * for the user name.
                         * If the argument passed is not numeric, then
                         * we take it as the user name and proceed.
                         */
                        uid = strtoul(*list, &ptr, 10);
                        if (!(*ptr == '\0' && errno == 0) ||
                            ((pwp = getpwuid(uid)) == NULL)) {
                                pwp = getpwnam(*list);
                        }

                        if (pwp == NULL)
                                rc = EXC_NAME_NOT_FOUND;
                        else
                                (void) putpwent(pwp, stdout);
                }
        }

        return (rc);
}