INITGROUPS(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 					     INITGROUPS(3)

NAME

     initgroups -- initialize supplementary group IDs

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <unistd.h>

     int
     initgroups(const char *name, gid_t basegid);

DESCRIPTION

     The initgroups() function uses the getgrouplist(3) function to calculate the supplementary group IDs for the user specified in name.  This
     group list is then set up for the current process using setgroups(2).  The basegid is automatically included in the group list.  Typically
     this value is given as the group number from the password file.

     If the groups database lists more than NGROUPS groups for name (including one for basegid), the later groups are ignored.

RETURN VALUES

     The initgroups() function returns -1 if it was not invoked by the super-user.

SEE ALSO

     setgroups(2), getgrouplist(3)

HISTORY

     The initgroups() function appeared in 4.2BSD.

BUGS

     The getgrouplist() function called by initgroups() uses the routines based on getgrent(3).  If the invoking program uses any of these rou-
     tines, the group structure will be overwritten in the call to initgroups().

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								  August 10, 2002							       BSD