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64 .Nm getgroupmembership ,
65 .Nd calculate group access list
71 .Fn getgrouplist "const char *name" "gid_t basegid" "gid_t *groups" "int *ngroups"
73 .Fn getgroupmembership "const char *name" "gid_t basegid" "gid_t *groups" "int maxgrp" "int *ngroups"
78 .Fn getgroupmembership
79 functions read through the group database and calculate
80 the group access list for the user specified in
84 is automatically included in the groups list.
85 Typically this value is given as
86 the group number from the password database.
88 The resulting group list is returned in the integer array pointed to by
93 the caller specifies the size of the
95 array in the integer pointed to by
99 .Fn getgroupmembership ,
100 the caller specifies the size of the
105 The actual number of groups found is returned in
108 Duplicate group ids will be suppressed from the result.
113 .Fn getgroupmembership
115 return 0 if successful, and
116 return \-1 if the size of the group list is too small to
117 hold all the user's groups.
118 In the latter case, the
120 array will be filled with as many groups as will fit and
122 will contain the total number of groups found.
124 .Bl -tag -width /etc/group -compact
126 group membership list
135 function first appeared in
138 .Fn getgroupmembership
139 function first appeared in
141 to address an API deficiency in
147 uses the routines based on
149 If the invoking program uses any of these routines,
150 the group structure will
151 be overwritten in the call to