SETGROUPS(2) | System Calls Manual | SETGROUPS(2) |
setgroups
— set
group access list
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int
setgroups
(int
ngroups, const gid_t
*gidset);
setgroups
()
sets the group access list of the current user process according to the
array gidset. The parameter
ngroups indicates the number of entries in the array
and must be no more than {NGROUPS_MAX}
.
Only the superuser may set new groups.
Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.
The setgroups
() call will fail if:
The setgroups
() system call first appeared
in 4.1cBSD.
September 10, 2015 | OpenBSD-6.1 |