Re: Problem in one program...

["Scott." <scottf scs unr edu>]

On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Bryan Wilkinson wrote:

> getpwent() uses a single passwd structure, when you make successive calls
> to it, the pointer returned from the previous call points to the newly
> updated passwd structure, this is why you are getting multiple copies of
> the same structure. you will need to make a function to copy the fields of
> the passwd structure.

Bryan,

i went through this same thing when writing gUserman. i wrote quite a few
helper functions (copy_passwd, create_passwd, etc...) for handling passwd
entries, and if you're still having problems, you can take a look through
there. there's group helpers too.

http://www.scs.unr.edu/~scottf/guserman

-=Scott