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initgroups(3) Library Functions Manual initgroups(3)
initgroups - initialize the supplementary group access list
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
#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
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.
The initgroups() function returns 0 on success. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.
ENOMEM Insufficient memory to allocate group information structure. EPERM The calling process has insufficient privilege. See the underlying system call setgroups(2).
/etc/group group database file
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). ┌───────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬────────────────┐ │Interface │ Attribute │ Value │ ├───────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┤ │initgroups() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe locale │ └───────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────┘
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SVr4, 4.3BSD.
getgroups(2), setgroups(2), credentials(7)
Linux man-pages 6.04 2023-03-30 initgroups(3)
Pages that refer to this page: groups(1@@shadow-utils), getgroups(2), group(5), nss(5), credentials(7)