GETGROUPLIST(3) Library Functions Manual GETGROUPLIST(3) NAME getgrouplist -- produce a user's effective group list LIBRARY Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS #include <unistd.h> int getgrouplist(const char *name, gid_t basegid, gid_t *groups, int *ngroups); DESCRIPTION The getgrouplist() function retrieves from the group database the supple- mentary groups for the user specified in name and returns the effective group list, whose first group is the value of basegid and the others are the supplementary groups. basegid typically is the user's initial numeri- cal group ID from the password database. The effective group list is returned in the array pointed to by groups. The caller specifies the length of the groups array in the integer pointed to by ngroups. The number of groups of the effective group list, which may be greater than the groups array's length, is returned through ngroups. RETURN VALUES The getgrouplist() function returns 0 on success and -1 if the length of the group list is too small to hold all the user's groups. In the latter case, the groups array is filled with as many groups as possible from the start of the effective group list, and the length pointed to by ngroups is set to the full length of the latter, thus to a value strictly greater than before the call. FILES /etc/group group membership list SEE ALSO setcred(2), setgroups(2), initgroups(3) HISTORY The getgrouplist() function first appeared in 4.4BSD. FreeBSD 15.1 October 9, 2025 GETGROUPLIST(3)
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