Make pw_scan(3) more compatible with getpwent(3) et. al. when processing

data from /etc/passwd rather than /etc/master.passwd.

The libc getpwent(3) and related functions automatically read master.passwd
when run by root, or passwd when run by a non-root user.  When run by non-
root, getpwent() copes with the missing data by setting the corresponding
fields in the passwd struct to known values (zeroes for numbers, or a
pointer to an empty string for literals).  When libutil's pw_scan(3) was
used to parse a line without the root-accessible data, it was leaving
garbage in the corresponding fields.

These changes rename the static pw_init() function used by getpwent() and
friends to __pw_initpwd(), and move it into pw_scan.c so that common init
code can be shared between libc and libutil.  pw_scan(3) now calls
__pw_initpwd() before __pw_scan(), just like the getpwent() family does, so
that reading an arbitrary passwd file in either format and parsing it with
pw_scan(3) returns the same results as getpwent(3) would.

This also adds a new pw_initpwd(3) function to libutil, so that code which
creates passwd structs from scratch in some manner that doesn't involve
pw_scan() can initialize the struct to the values expected by lots of
existing code, which doesn't expect to encounter NULL pointers or garbage
values in some fields.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libutil/libutil.h b/libutil/libutil.h
index c79eaac..2ac5e97 100644
--- a/libutil/libutil.h
+++ b/libutil/libutil.h
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ int	pw_edit(int _notsetuid);
 int	pw_equal(const struct passwd *_pw1, const struct passwd *_pw2);
 void	pw_fini(void);
 int	pw_init(const char *_dir, const char *_master);
+void	pw_initpwd(struct passwd *_pw);
 char	*pw_make(const struct passwd *_pw);
 char	*pw_make_v7(const struct passwd *_pw);
 int	pw_mkdb(const char *_user);