Extracted from Pike v7.8 release 866 at 2016-11-06.
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Method System.getgrent()


Method getgrent

array(int|string|array(string)) getgrent()

Description

Get a group entry from /etc/groups file. getgrent interates thru the groups source and returns one entry per call using the systemfunction getgrent(3).

Always call endgrent when done using getgrent !

Returns

An array with the information about the group

Array
string 0

Group name

string 1

Group password (encrypted)

int 2

ID of the group

array 3..

Array with UIDs of group members


See also

get_all_groups() getgrnam() getgrgid()