NAME


getent - get entries from administrative database

SYNOPSIS


getent database [key ...]

DESCRIPTION


The getent program gathers entries from the specified administrative database using the specified search keys. Where database is one of passwd, group, hosts, services, protocols, or networks.

AUTHOR


getent is written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> for the GNU C Library.

This man page is written by Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org>

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