Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 14:56:19 -0400
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Subject: Re: Question about standards
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> What does standard say about members of struct passwd in <pwd.h>
> and struct group in <grp.h>?  Namely, about pw_passwd, pw_gecos and
> gr_passwd fields.  I have seen these fields used unconditionally in
> some multiplatform packages.

POSIX.1 defines pw_name, pw_uid, pw_gid, pw_dir, and pw_shell;
gr_name, gr_gid, and gr_mem.