---
name: "checkgid"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "apache2-utils"
version: "2.4.68-1~deb13u1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux", "macos"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/checkgid"
---

# checkgid(8)

checks the gid

## NAME

checkgid - checks the gid

## SYNOPSIS

**checkgid group**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **checkgid** command.

**checkgid** is a program that checks whether it can setgid to the group specified. This is to see if it is a valid group for apache2 to use at runtime. If the user (should be run as superuser) is in that group, or can setgid to it, it will return 0.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Daniel Stone \<daniel@sfarc.net\> for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, as the original did not have a manpage.