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+/*
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2007 - 2009, Nicolas François
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ */
+
+/*
+ * According to the Linux-PAM documentation:
+ *
+ * 4.1. Care about standard library calls
+ *
+ * In general, writers of authorization-granting applications should
+ * assume that each module is likely to call any or all 'libc' functions.
+ * For 'libc' functions that return pointers to static/dynamically
+ * allocated structures (ie. the library allocates the memory and the
+ * user is not expected to 'free()' it) any module call to this function
+ * is likely to corrupt a pointer previously obtained by the application.
+ * The application programmer should either re-call such a 'libc'
+ * function after a call to the Linux-PAM library, or copy the structure
+ * contents to some safe area of memory before passing control to the
+ * Linux-PAM library.
+ *
+ * Two important function classes that fall into this category are
+ * getpwnam(3) and syslog(3).
+ *
+ * This file provide wrapper to the getpwnam or getpwnam_r functions.
+ */
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+#include "pwio.h"
+
+#define LOOKUP_TYPE struct passwd
+#define FUNCTION_NAME getpwnam
+#define ARG_TYPE const char *
+#define ARG_NAME name
+#define DUP_FUNCTION __pw_dup
+#define HAVE_FUNCTION_R (defined HAVE_GETPWNAM_R)
+
+#include "xgetXXbyYY.c"
+