Manual Pages  — GETUSERSHELL

getusershell, setusershell, endusershell – get valid user shells

LIBRARY SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION FILES DIAGNOSTICS SEE ALSO HISTORY BUGS

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

#include <unistd.h>

char *
getusershell(void);

void
setusershell(void);

void
endusershell(void);

/etc/shells

The routine getusershell() returns a null pointer (0) on EOF.

The getusershell() function appeared in BSD 4.3 .

The getusershell() function leaves its result in an internal static object and returns a pointer to that object. Subsequent calls to getusershell() will modify the same object.