Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 14:05:18 +0300 (IDT)
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On 15 Apr 1999, Michael Bukin wrote:

> What does standard say about members of struct passwd in <pwd.h>
> and struct group in <grp.h>?  Namely, about pw_passwd, pw_gecos and
> gr_passwd fields.

AFAIK, all of these are non-Posix.  pw_gecos and gr_passwd certainly are.

> I have seen these fields used unconditionally in
> some multiplatform packages.

These packages are non-portable.  What else is new?