/* group-member.c -- determine whether group id is in calling user's group list Copyright (C) 1994, 1997-1998, 2003, 2005-2006, 2009-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This file 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 Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #include /* Specification. */ #include #include #include #include #include /* Most processes have no more than this many groups, and for these processes we can avoid using malloc. */ enum { GROUPBUF_SIZE = 100 }; struct group_info { gid_t *group; gid_t groupbuf[GROUPBUF_SIZE]; }; static void free_group_info (struct group_info const *g) { if (g->group != g->groupbuf) free (g->group); } static int get_group_info (struct group_info *gi) { int n_groups = getgroups (GROUPBUF_SIZE, gi->groupbuf); gi->group = gi->groupbuf; if (n_groups < 0) { int n_group_slots = getgroups (0, NULL); size_t nbytes; if (! ckd_mul (&nbytes, n_group_slots, sizeof *gi->group)) { gi->group = malloc (nbytes); if (gi->group) n_groups = getgroups (n_group_slots, gi->group); } } /* In case of error, the user loses. */ return n_groups; } /* Return non-zero if GID is one that we have in our groups list. Note that the groups list is not guaranteed to contain the current or effective group ID, so they should generally be checked separately. */ int group_member (gid_t gid) { int i; int found; struct group_info gi; int n_groups = get_group_info (&gi); /* Search through the list looking for GID. */ found = 0; for (i = 0; i < n_groups; i++) { if (gid == gi.group[i]) { found = 1; break; } } free_group_info (&gi); return found; } #ifdef TEST int main (int argc, char **argv) { int i; for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) { gid_t gid; gid = atoi (argv[i]); printf ("%d: %s\n", gid, group_member (gid) ? "yes" : "no"); } exit (0); } #endif /* TEST */