Using "getpwent" in SYSV/386

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <785 at ctdi.UUCP> mikei at ctdi.UUCP (Mike Israel) writes:
-This particular version of Unix stores encrypted passwords
-in a file called /etc/shadow.  The standard /etc/password field
-for the encrypted password simply contains an 'x'.  Using
-"getpwent" simply retrieves this 'x'.
-Is there an existing function to access the encrypted password?

NO, that's the whole point of having /etc/shadow.