linux howto get user's group,linux - Python: How to get group ids of one username (like id -Gn ) - S...

The only way I found to make this work correctly when having users non local to the system (e.g. ldap, sssd+ldap, freeIPA) without calling id in a subprocess is by calling the getgrouplist c function (which is called by id eventually after going trough some abstractions):

#!/usr/bin/python

import grp, pwd, os

from ctypes import *

from ctypes.util import find_library

libc = cdll.LoadLibrary(find_library('libc'))

getgrouplist = libc.getgrouplist

# 50 groups should be enought?

ngroups = 50

getgrouplist.argtypes = [c_char_p, c_uint, POINTER(c_uint * ngroups), POINTER(c_int)]

getgrouplist.restype = c_int32

grouplist = (c_uint * ngroups)()

ngrouplist = c_int(ngroups)

user = pwd.getpwuid(2540485)

ct = getgrouplist(user.pw_name, user.pw_gid, byref(grouplist), byref(ngrouplist))

# if 50 groups was not enought this will be -1, try again

# luckily the last call put the correct number of groups in ngrouplist

if ct < 0:

getgrouplist.argtypes = [c_char_p, c_uint, POINTER(c_uint *int(ngrouplist.value)), POINTER(c_int)]

grouplist = (c_uint * int(ngrouplist.value))()

ct = getgrouplist(user.pw_name, user.pw_gid, byref(grouplist), byref(ngrouplist))

for i in xrange(0, ct):

gid = grouplist[i]

print grp.getgrgid(gid).gr_name