/* mgetgroups.c -- return a list of the groups a user is in Copyright (C) 2007-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ /* Extracted from coreutils' src/id.c. */ #include #include "mgetgroups.h" #include #include #include #include #include #if HAVE_GETGROUPLIST # include #endif #include "getugroups.h" #include "xalloc.h" static GETGROUPS_T * realloc_groupbuf (GETGROUPS_T *g, size_t num) { if (xalloc_oversized (num, sizeof (*g))) { errno = ENOMEM; return NULL; } return realloc (g, num * sizeof (*g)); } /* Like getugroups, but store the result in malloc'd storage. Set *GROUPS to the malloc'd list of all group IDs of which USERNAME is a member. If GID is not -1, store it first. GID should be the group ID (pw_gid) obtained from getpwuid, in case USERNAME is not listed in the groups database (e.g., /etc/groups). Upon failure, don't modify *GROUPS, set errno, and return -1. Otherwise, return the number of groups. */ int mgetgroups (char const *username, gid_t gid, GETGROUPS_T **groups) { int max_n_groups; int ng; GETGROUPS_T *g; #if HAVE_GETGROUPLIST /* We prefer to use getgrouplist if available, because it has better performance characteristics. In glibc 2.3.2, getgrouplist is buggy. If you pass a zero as the length of the output buffer, getgrouplist will still write to the buffer. Contrary to what some versions of the getgrouplist manpage say, this doesn't happen with nonzero buffer sizes. Therefore our usage here just avoids a zero sized buffer. */ if (username) { enum { N_GROUPS_INIT = 10 }; max_n_groups = N_GROUPS_INIT; g = realloc_groupbuf (NULL, max_n_groups); if (g == NULL) return -1; while (1) { GETGROUPS_T *h; /* getgrouplist updates max_n_groups to num required. */ ng = getgrouplist (username, gid, g, &max_n_groups); if ((h = realloc_groupbuf (g, max_n_groups)) == NULL) { int saved_errno = errno; free (g); errno = saved_errno; return -1; } g = h; if (0 <= ng) { *groups = g; return ng; } } } /* else no username, so fall through and use getgroups. */ #endif max_n_groups = (username ? getugroups (0, NULL, username, gid) : getgroups (0, NULL)); /* If we failed to count groups with NULL for a buffer, try again with a non-NULL one, just in case. */ if (max_n_groups < 0) max_n_groups = 5; g = realloc_groupbuf (NULL, max_n_groups); if (g == NULL) return -1; ng = (username ? getugroups (max_n_groups, g, username, gid) : getgroups (max_n_groups, g)); if (ng < 0) { int saved_errno = errno; free (g); errno = saved_errno; return -1; } *groups = g; return ng; }