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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement | |
| 3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. | |
| 4 | .\" | |
| c77a365c | 5 | .\" @(#)initgroups.3 6.1 (Berkeley) %G% |
| 22e59cfd | 6 | .\" |
| c77a365c | 7 | .TH INITGROUPS 3X "" |
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8 | .UC 5 |
| 9 | .SH NAME | |
| 10 | initgroups \- initialize group access list | |
| 11 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 12 | .B initgroups(name, basegid) | |
| 13 | .br | |
| 14 | .B char *name; | |
| 15 | .br | |
| 16 | .B int basegid; | |
| 17 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 18 | .I Initgroups | |
| 19 | reads through the group file and sets up, | |
| 20 | using the | |
| 21 | .IR setgroups (2) | |
| 22 | call, the group access list for the user | |
| 23 | specified in | |
| 24 | .IR name . | |
| 25 | The | |
| 26 | .I basegid | |
| 27 | is automatically included in the groups list. | |
| 28 | Typically this value is given as | |
| 29 | the group number from the password file. | |
| 30 | .SH FILES | |
| 31 | /etc/group | |
| 32 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
| 33 | setgroups(2) | |
| 34 | .SH DIAGNOSTICS | |
| 35 | .I Initgroups | |
| 36 | returns \-1 if it was not invoked by the super-user. | |
| 37 | .SH BUGS | |
| 38 | .I Initgroups | |
| 39 | uses the routines based on | |
| 40 | .IR getgrent (3). | |
| 41 | If the invoking program uses any of these routines, | |
| 42 | the group structure will | |
| 43 | be overwritten in the call to | |
| 44 | .IR initgroups . | |
| 45 | .PP | |
| 46 | Noone seems to keep /etc/group up to date. |