# PXFGETPWNAM (L*X, M*X)

POSIX Subroutine: Gets password information for a specified name.

## Module

USE IFPOSIX

CALL PXFGETPWNAM (name,ilen,jpasswd,ierror)

name | (Input) Character. The login name of the user to retrieve information about. For example, a login name might be "jsmith", while the actual name is "John Smith".
ilen | (Input) INTEGER(4). The length of the name string.
jpasswd | (Input) INTEGER(4). A handle of structure compnam.
ierror | (Output) INTEGER(4). The error status.

If successful, ierror is not changed; otherwise, an error code.

The PXFGETPWNAM subroutine stores the user information from /etc/passwd for the entry that matches the user name name in the structure associated with handle jpasswd.

### Note

To get a handle for an instance of the `compnam` structure, use PXFSTRUCTCREATE with the string 'compnam' for the structure name.

Parent topic: POSIX* Library Routines

## See Also

PXFSTRUCTCREATE