| Extracted from Pike v7.8 release 866 at 2016-04-05.

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System

# Method System.initgroups()

Method initgroups

  `void initgroups(string name, int base_gid)`

Description

  Initializes the supplemental group access list according to the system group database. base_gid is also added to the group access list.

Note

  Throws errors on failure.

  This function is not available on all platforms.

See also

  setuid() , getuid() , setgid() , getgid() , seteuid() , geteuid() , setegid() , getegid() , getgroups() , setgroups()