initgroups(3) [osf1 man page]

initgroups(3)						     Library Functions Manual						     initgroups(3)

NAME

       initgroups - Initializes concurrent group set

LIBRARY

       Standard C Library (libc.a)

SYNOPSIS

       int initgroups (      char *user,      gid_t base_gid );

PARAMETERS

       Specifies the user whose groups are to be used to initialize the group set.  Specifies an additional group to include in the group set.

DESCRIPTION

       The initgroups() function reads the defined group membership of the specified user and sets the concurrent group set of the current process
       to that value. The base_gid parameter is always included in the concurrent group set, and is normally the principal user's  group.  If  the
       user is in more than NGROUPS_MAX groups, only NGROUPS_MAX groups are set, including the base_gid group.

CAUTION

       The  initgroups() function uses the sia_get_groups() function to set up the group array.  If the program that invokes initgroups() uses any
       of these functions, then calling initgroups() overwrites the static group structure.

RETURN VALUES

       Upon successful completion, the initgroups() function returns 0 (zero). If the initgroups() function fails, 1 is returned and errno is  set
       to indicate the error.

ERRORS

       If the initgroups() function fails, errno may be set to the following value: The calling process does not have the appropriate privilege in
       its current effective privilege set.

RELATED INFORMATION

       Functions: getgroups(2), setgroups(2), getgid(2) sia_get_groups(3)

       Commands: groups(1) delim off

																     initgroups(3)

initgroups(3C)						   Standard C Library Functions 					    initgroups(3C)

NAME

       initgroups - initialize the supplementary group access list

SYNOPSIS

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

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

DESCRIPTION

       The  initgroups() function reads the group database to get the group membership for the user specified by name, and initializes the supple-
       mentary group access list of the calling process (see getgrnam(3C) and getgroups(2)). The basegid group ID is also included in the  supple-
       mentary group access list. This is typically the real group ID from the user database.

       While  scanning the group database, if the number of groups, including the basegid entry, exceeds NGROUPS_MAX, subsequent group entries are
       ignored.

RETURN VALUES

       Upon successful completion, 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

       The initgroups() function will fail and not change the supplementary group access list if:

       EPERM	The {PRIV_PROC_SETID} privilege is not asserted in the effective set of the calling process.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |MT-Safe			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       getgroups(2), getgrnam(3C), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    22 Mar 2004 						    initgroups(3C)