SETREUID(2) BSD System Calls Manual SETREUID(2)NAMEsetreuid — set real and effective user ID's
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int
setreuid(uid_t ruid, uid_t euid);
DESCRIPTION
The real and effective user IDs of the current process are set according
to the arguments. If ruid or euid is -1, the current uid is filled in by
the system. Unprivileged users may change the real user ID to the effec‐
tive user ID and vice-versa; only the super-user may make other changes.
If the real user ID is changed (i.e. ruid is not -1) or the effective
user ID is changed to something other than the real user ID, then the
saved user ID will be set to the effective user ID.
The setreuid() system call has been used to swap the real and effective
user IDs in set-user-ID programs to temporarily relinquish the set-user-
ID value. This purpose is now better served by the use of the seteuid(2)
system call.
When setting the real and effective user IDs to the same value, the stan‐
dard setuid() system call is preferred.
RETURN VALUES
The setreuid() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the
value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
error.
ERRORS
[EPERM] The current process is not the super-user and a change
other than changing the effective user-id to the real
user-id was specified.
SEE ALSOgetuid(2), issetugid(2), seteuid(2), setuid(2)HISTORY
The setreuid() system call appeared in 4.2BSD.
BSD February 8, 2001 BSD
