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.TH SETEUID "3P" 2013 "IEEE/The Open Group" "POSIX Programmer's Manual"
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.SH PROLOG
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This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.
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The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult
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the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior),
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or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
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.SH NAME
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seteuid
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\(em set effective user ID
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.LP
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.nf
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#include <unistd.h>
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.P
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int seteuid(uid_t \fIuid\fP);
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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If
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.IR uid
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is equal to the real user ID or the saved set-user-ID, or if the
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process has appropriate privileges,
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\fIseteuid\fR()
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shall set the effective user ID of the calling process to
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.IR uid ;
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the real user ID and saved set-user-ID shall remain unchanged.
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.P
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The
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\fIseteuid\fR()
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function shall not affect the supplementary group list in any way.
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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Upon successful completion, 0 shall be returned; otherwise, \(mi1 shall
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be returned and
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.IR errno
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set to indicate the error.
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.SH ERRORS
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The
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\fIseteuid\fR()
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function shall fail if:
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.TP
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.BR EINVAL
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The value of the
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.IR uid
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argument is invalid and is not supported by the implementation.
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.TP
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.BR EPERM
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The process does not have appropriate privileges and
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.IR uid
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does not match the real user ID or the saved set-user-ID.
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.LP
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.IR "The following sections are informative."
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.SH EXAMPLES
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None.
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.SH "APPLICATION USAGE"
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None.
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.SH RATIONALE
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Refer to the RATIONALE section in
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.IR "\fIsetuid\fR\^(\|)".
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.SH "FUTURE DIRECTIONS"
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None.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.IR "\fIexec\fR\^",
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.IR "\fIgetegid\fR\^(\|)",
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.IR "\fIgeteuid\fR\^(\|)",
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.IR "\fIgetgid\fR\^(\|)",
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.IR "\fIgetuid\fR\^(\|)",
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.IR "\fIsetegid\fR\^(\|)",
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.IR "\fIsetgid\fR\^(\|)",
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.IR "\fIsetregid\fR\^(\|)",
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.IR "\fIsetreuid\fR\^(\|)",
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.IR "\fIsetuid\fR\^(\|)"
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.P
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The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1\(hy2008,
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.IR "\fB<sys_types.h>\fP",
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.IR "\fB<unistd.h>\fP"
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.SH COPYRIGHT
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Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
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from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technology
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-- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
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Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of
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Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.
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(This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the
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event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and
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The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard
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is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at
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http://www.unix.org/online.html .
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Any typographical or formatting errors that appear
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in this page are most likely
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to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to
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man page format. To report such errors, see
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https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .
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