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.\" Copyright (C) 2008, Linux Foundation, written by Michael Kerrisk
.\" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
.\"
.\" A few pieces remain from an earlier version written in
.\" 2002 by Walter Harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
.\"
.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft
.\"
.TH getgrouplist 3 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages 6.8"
.SH NAME
getgrouplist \- get list of groups to which a user belongs
.SH LIBRARY
Standard C library
.RI ( libc ", " \-lc )
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <grp.h>
.P
.BI "int getgrouplist(const char *" user ", gid_t " group ,
.BI " gid_t *" groups ", int *" ngroups );
.fi
.P
.RS -4
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
.RE
.P
.BR getgrouplist ():
.nf
Since glibc 2.19:
_DEFAULT_SOURCE
glibc 2.19 and earlier:
_BSD_SOURCE
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR getgrouplist ()
function scans the group database (see
.BR group (5))
to obtain the list of groups that
.I user
belongs to.
Up to
.I *ngroups
of these groups are returned in the array
.IR groups .
.P
If it was not among the groups defined for
.I user
in the group database, then
.I group
is included in the list of groups returned by
.BR getgrouplist ();
typically this argument is specified as the group ID from
the password record for
.IR user .
.P
The
.I ngroups
argument is a value-result argument:
on return it always contains the number of groups found for
.IR user ,
including
.IR group ;
this value may be greater than the number of groups stored in
.IR groups .
.SH RETURN VALUE
If the number of groups of which
.I user
is a member is less than or equal to
.IR *ngroups ,
then the value
.I *ngroups
is returned.
.P
If the user is a member of more than
.I *ngroups
groups, then
.BR getgrouplist ()
returns \-1.
In this case, the value returned in
.I *ngroups
can be used to resize the buffer passed to a further call to
.BR getgrouplist ().
.SH ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
.BR attributes (7).
.TS
allbox;
lbx lb lb
l l l.
Interface Attribute Value
T{
.na
.nh
.BR getgrouplist ()
T} Thread safety MT-Safe locale
.TE
.SH STANDARDS
None.
.SH HISTORY
glibc 2.2.4.
.SH BUGS
Before glibc 2.3.3,
the implementation of this function contains a buffer-overrun bug:
it returns the complete list of groups for
.I user
in the array
.IR groups ,
even when the number of groups exceeds
.IR *ngroups .
.SH EXAMPLES
The program below displays the group list for the user named in its
first command-line argument.
The second command-line argument specifies the
.I ngroups
value to be supplied to
.BR getgrouplist ().
The following shell session shows examples of the use of this program:
.P
.in +4n
.EX
.RB "$" " ./a.out cecilia 0"
getgrouplist() returned \-1; ngroups = 3
.RB "$" " ./a.out cecilia 3"
ngroups = 3
16 (dialout)
33 (video)
100 (users)
.EE
.in
.SS Program source
\&
.\" SRC BEGIN (getgrouplist.c)
.EX
#include <errno.h>
#include <grp.h>
#include <pwd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
\&
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int ngroups;
gid_t *groups;
struct group *gr;
struct passwd *pw;
\&
if (argc != 3) {
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <user> <ngroups>\en", argv[0]);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
\&
ngroups = atoi(argv[2]);
\&
groups = malloc(sizeof(*groups) * ngroups);
if (groups == NULL) {
perror("malloc");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
\&
/* Fetch passwd structure (contains first group ID for user). */
\&
errno = 0;
pw = getpwnam(argv[1]);
if (pw == NULL) {
if (errno)
perror("getpwnam");
else
fprintf(stderr, "no such user\en");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
\&
/* Retrieve group list. */
\&
if (getgrouplist(argv[1], pw\->pw_gid, groups, &ngroups) == \-1) {
fprintf(stderr, "getgrouplist() returned \-1; ngroups = %d\en",
ngroups);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
\&
/* Display list of retrieved groups, along with group names. */
\&
fprintf(stderr, "ngroups = %d\en", ngroups);
for (int j = 0; j < ngroups; j++) {
printf("%d", groups[j]);
gr = getgrgid(groups[j]);
if (gr != NULL)
printf(" (%s)", gr\->gr_name);
printf("\en");
}
\&
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
.EE
.\" SRC END
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR getgroups (2),
.BR setgroups (2),
.BR getgrent (3),
.BR group_member (3),
.BR group (5),
.BR passwd (5)
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