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INITGROUPS

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2017-09-15
Index Return to Main Contents
 

NAME

initgroups - initialize the supplementary group access list  

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <grp.h>

int initgroups(const char *user, gid_t group);

Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

initgroups():
    Since glibc 2.19:
        _DEFAULT_SOURCE
    Glibc 2.19 and earlier:
        _BSD_SOURCE  

DESCRIPTION

The initgroups() function initializes the group access list by reading the group database /etc/group and using all groups of which user is a member. The additional group group is also added to the list.

The user argument must be non-NULL.  

RETURN VALUE

The initgroups() function returns 0 on success. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.  

ERRORS

ENOMEM
Insufficient memory to allocate group information structure.
EPERM
The calling process has insufficient privilege. See the underlying system call setgroups(2).
 

FILES

/etc/group              group database file
 

ATTRIBUTES

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
InterfaceAttributeValue
initgroups() Thread safetyMT-Safe locale

 

CONFORMING TO

SVr4, 4.3BSD.  

SEE ALSO

getgroups(2), setgroups(2), credentials(7)  

COLOPHON

This page is part of release 4.13 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.


 

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