1.\" Copyright (c) 2004 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation 5.\" by Luke Mewburn. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 16.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 17.\" This product includes software developed by the NetBSD 18.\" Foundation, Inc. and its contributors. 19.\" 4. Neither the name of The NetBSD Foundation nor the names of its 20.\" contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived 21.\" from this software without specific prior written permission. 22.\" 23.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS 24.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED 25.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 26.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS 27.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 28.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 29.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 30.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 31.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 32.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 33.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 35.\" $NetBSD: getent.1,v 1.13 2005/09/11 23:16:15 wiz Exp $ 36.\" $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/getent/getent.1,v 1.2 2006/09/30 17:27:50 ru Exp $ 37.\" $DragonFly: src/usr.bin/getent/getent.1,v 1.1 2007/12/04 18:13:09 dillon Exp $ 38.\" 39.Dd August 24, 2005 40.Dt GETENT 1 41.Os 42.Sh NAME 43.Nm getent 44.Nd get entries from administrative database 45.Sh SYNOPSIS 46.Nm 47.Ar database 48.Op Ar key ... 49.Sh DESCRIPTION 50The 51.Nm 52utility retrieves and displays entries from the administrative 53database specified by 54.Ar database , 55using the lookup order specified in 56.Xr nsswitch.conf 5 . 57The display format for a given 58.Ar database 59is as per the 60.Dq traditional 61file format for that database. 62.Pp 63The 64.Ar database 65argument may be one of: 66.Pp 67.Bl -column ".Li netgroup" -offset indent -compact 68.It Sy Database Ta Sy Display format 69.It Li ethers Ta address name 70.It Li group Ta group:passwd:gid:[member[,member]...] 71.It Li hosts Ta address name [alias ...] 72.It Li networks Ta name network [alias ...] 73.It Li passwd Ta user:passwd:uid:gid:gecos:home_dir:shell 74.It Li protocols Ta name protocol [alias ...] 75.It Li rpc Ta name number [alias ...] 76.It Li services Ta name port/protocol [alias ...] 77.It Li shells Ta /path/to/shell 78.El 79.Pp 80If one or more 81.Ar key 82arguments are provided, they will be looked up in 83.Ar database 84using the appropriate function. 85For example, 86.Dq Li passwd 87supports a numeric UID or user name; 88.Dq Li hosts 89supports an IPv4 address, IPv6 address, or host name; 90and 91.Dq Li services 92supports a service name, service name/protocol name, numeric port, or 93numeric port/protocol name. 94.Pp 95If no 96.Ar key 97is provided and 98.Ar database 99supports enumeration, all entries for 100.Ar database 101will be retrieved using the appropriate enumeration function and printed. 102.Sh EXIT STATUS 103The 104.Nm 105utility exits 0 on success, 1061 if there was an error in the command syntax, 1072 if one of the specified key names was not found in 108.Ar database , 109or 3 if there is no support for enumeration on 110.Ar database . 111.Sh SEE ALSO 112.Xr ethers 5 , 113.Xr group 5 , 114.Xr hosts 5 , 115.Xr networks 5 , 116.Xr nsswitch.conf 5 , 117.Xr passwd 5 , 118.Xr protocols 5 , 119.Xr rpc 5 , 120.Xr services 5 , 121.Xr shells 5 122.Sh HISTORY 123A 124.Nm 125command appeared in 126.Nx 3.0 , 127and was imported into 128.Fx 7.0 . 129It was based on the command of the same name in 130.Tn Solaris 131and 132.Tn Linux . 133