Here are detailed descriptions of the functions for reading the user and group IDs of a process, both real and effective. To use these facilities, you must include the header files `sys/types.h' and `unistd.h'.
unsigned int.
unsigned int.
getuid function returns the real user ID of the process.
getgid function returns the real group ID of the process.
geteuid function returns the effective user ID of the process.
getegid function returns the effective group ID of the process.
getgroups function is used to inquire about the supplementary
group IDs of the process. Up to count of these group IDs are
stored in the array groups; the return value from the function is
the number of group IDs actually stored. If count is smaller than
the total number of supplementary group IDs, then getgroups
returns a value of -1 and errno is set to EINVAL.
If count is zero, then getgroups just returns the total
number of supplementary group IDs. On systems that do not support
supplementary groups, this will always be zero.
Here's how to use getgroups to read all the supplementary group
IDs:
gid_t *
read_all_groups (void)
{
int ngroups = getgroups (0, NULL);
gid_t *groups
= (gid_t *) xmalloc (ngroups * sizeof (gid_t));
int val = getgroups (ngroups, groups);
if (val < 0)
{
free (groups);
return NULL;
}
return groups;
}
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