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posix-groups

This egg provides a way to obtain information about POSIX user groups from the system databases (typically /etc/passwd and /etc/groups), and to manipulate the current user's active groups.

This egg is only available on POSIX platforms, so it cannot be installed on Windows.

Usage

group-information

group-information GROUPprocedure

If GROUP specifies a valid group-name or group-id, then this procedure returns a list of four values: the group-name, the encrypted group password, the group ID and a list of the names of all group members. If no group with the given name or ID exists, then #f is returned.

get-groups

get-groupsprocedure

Returns a list with the supplementary group IDs of the current user.

set-groups!

set-groups! GIDLISTprocedure

Sets the supplementrary group IDs of the current user to the IDs given in the list GIDLIST.

Only the superuser may invoke this procedure.

initialize-groups

initialize-groups USERNAME BASEGIDprocedure

Sets the supplementrary group IDs of the current user to the IDs from the user with name USERNAME (a string), including BASEGID.

Only the superuser may invoke this procedure.

Author

The CHICKEN Team

Repository

This egg is hosted on the CHICKEN Subversion repository:

https://anonymous@code.call-cc.org/svn/chicken-eggs/release/5/posix-groups

If you want to check out the source code repository of this egg and you are not familiar with Subversion, see this page.

License

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Version History

0.2.1
Allow build on Haiku
0.2
Fix a few incorrect imports from earlier prerelease builds of CHICKEN 5.
0.1
Taken from the utils unit and released as an egg for CHICKEN 5.

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