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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Date: 09 Jun 2001 23:43:43 -0700 Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl> writes: > Here is a patch that implements getgrouplist() from 4.4 BSD. We > really need this to handle supplementary group ID's in the Hurd and > implementing it outside glibc would be pretty hard. Give me some more details, please. I've never come across a situation where it is used and don't want to add cruft for all platforms just because BSD did it. Basically you would use it in a situation where you're interested in a user's suplementary group IDs, but where you do not want to set them (or at least not yet). You could roll your own getgrouplist() using getgrent(), but that wouldn't be terribly efficient and probably even miss out groups if you use NSS backends like NIS+ or Hesiod. OpenSSH uses getgrouplist() to implement some access control based on suplementary group IDs. In the Hurd we have a lot more flexibility with respect to user and group IDs than on traditional UNIX. That's why we need to fetch a complete list of supplementary group ID's and fiddle with those instead of calling initgroups(). Mark
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