setegid

SETEUID(2)                 Linux Programmer's Manual                SETEUID(2)



NAME
       seteuid, setegid - set effective user or group ID

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.  Unprivi-
       leged 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
       EPERM  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
       BSD 4.3

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



Linux 2.4                         2001-05-17                        SETEUID(2)