libexplain/group_in_groups.c

Go to the documentation of this file.

/*
 * libexplain - Explain errno values returned by libc functions
 * Copyright (C) 2008-2010, 2013 Peter Miller
 *
 * This program 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 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
 * 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 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

#include <libexplain/ac/limits.h> /* for NGROUPS_MAX on Solaris */
#include <libexplain/ac/sys/param.h>
#include <libexplain/ac/unistd.h>

#include <libexplain/group_in_groups.h>
#include <libexplain/have_permission.h>


int
explain_group_in_groups(int gid, const explain_have_identity_t *hip)
{
    gid_t           groups[NGROUPS_MAX];
    int             n;
    int             j;

    /*
     * FIXME: NFS only transports 16 of the groups (this is because
     * Solaris only supports NGROUPS_MAX=16, and Sun invented NFS).  We
     * need to diagnose the case where they are in the list of groups on
     * Linux (where NGROUPS_MAX > 16), but are not in the list of groups
     * on the NFS server.
     */
    if (gid == hip->gid)
        return 1;
    n = getgroups(NGROUPS_MAX, groups);
    for (j = 0; j < n; ++j)
        if (groups[j] == (gid_t)gid)
            return 1;
    return 0;
}


/* vim: set ts=8 sw=4 et : */