GETGROUPLIST(3) OpenBSD Programmer's Manual GETGROUPLIST(3)NAMEgetgrouplist - calculate group access list
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int
getgrouplist(const char *name, gid_t basegid, gid_t *groups, int
*ngroups);
DESCRIPTION
The getgrouplist() function reads through the group(5) file and
calculates the group access list for the user specified in name. The
basegid is automatically included in the groups list. Typically this
value is given as the group number from the password file.
If YP is active and the group file contains no exclusions, the netid(5)
file and the netid.byname YP map will be used in addition to the group
file. If the group file contains at least one exclusion, the
group.byname YP map will be used in addition to the group file.
The resulting group list is returned in the integer array pointed to by
groups. The caller specifies the size of the groups array in the integer
pointed to by ngroups; the actual number of groups found is returned in
ngroups.
RETURN VALUES
The getgrouplist() function returns 0 if successful and -1 if the size of
the group list is too small to hold all the user's groups. Here, the
group array will be filled with as many groups as will fit.
FILES
/etc/group group database file
/etc/netid static group lists to override YP data
SEE ALSOsetgroups(2), initgroups(3), yp_match(3), group(5), netid(5), yp(8)HISTORY
The getgrouplist() function first appeared in 4.4BSD.
BUGS
The getgrouplist() function uses the routines based on getgrent(3). If
the invoking program uses any of these routines, the group structure will
be overwritten in the call to getgrouplist().
OpenBSD 4.9 June 23, 2009 OpenBSD 4.9
