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SETREUID(2) BSD System Calls Manual SETREUID(2)
NAME
setreuid -- set real and effective user IDs
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 effective user ID and vice-versa; only the super-user may make other changes.
The setreuid() function 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() function (see setuid(2)).
When setting the real and effective user IDs to the same value, the standard setuid() function is pre-ferred. preferred.
ferred.
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 ALSO
getuid(2), issetugid(2), seteuid(2), setuid(2)
HISTORY
The setreuid() system call appeared in 4.2BSD.
BSD February 8, 2001 BSD
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