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NAME

seteuid, setegid - set effective user or group ID

CONTENTS

Synopsis
Description
Errors
Notes

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>

"int seteuid(uid_t "euid);
"int setegid(gid_t "egid);

DESCRIPTION

seteuid sets the effective user ID of the current process. Unprivileged user processes may only set the effective user ID to the real user ID, the effective user ID or the saved user ID.

Precisely the same holds for setegid with "group" instead of "user".

"RETURN VALUE"

On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS

The current process is not the super-user and euid (resp. egid) is not the real user (group) ID, the effective user (group) ID or the saved user (group) ID.

NOTES

Setting the effective user (group) ID to the saved user (group) ID is possible since Linux 1.1.37 (1.1.38). On an arbitrary system one should check _POSIX_SAVED_IDS.

Under libc4, libc5 and glibc2.0 seteuid(euid) is equivalent to setreuid(-1," euid") and hence may change the saved user ID. Under glibc2.1 it is equivalent to setresuid(-1," euid",-1) and hence does not change the saved user ID. Similar remarks hold for setegid.

"CONFORMING TO"

"SEE ALSO"

geteuid(2), setuid(2), setreuid(2), setresuid(2)

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