CHECKGID(8)

💖 checkgid(8) — the manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so you found the checkgid page in the System Manager's Manual (section 8, the big-kid sysadmin section, we love her) 💅 let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

checkgid — checks the gid 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

checkgid group

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this manual page? It documents the checkgid command briefly. Short and sweet, no yapping, periodt. 💀

checkgid is a program that checks whether it can setgid to the group you specify. The whole point — the why of it — is to find out if that group is a valid group for apache2 to use at runtime. That's it, that's the mission. 👑

And here's the tea: if the user — and bestie, it should be run as superuser — is in that group, or can setgid to it, it will return 0. Zero. Success. Slay. ✨

🚨 quick vibe check: run it as superuser. That's the intended energy, no cap.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Daniel Stone <daniel@sfarc.net> for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, because the original literally did not have a manpage. Not one. Iconic of him to fix that, honestly. 🎀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

(nothing here, bestie — the original page doesn't list any SEE ALSO entries, and I'm not about to invent references that aren't in the source. integrity only 💜)

and that's the whole page!! 🍓 written for Debian GNU/Linux, straight out of the System Manager's Manual, dated November 3rd, 2001 — an absolute vintage era for this little guy 🧚 go forth and setgid responsibly 💖