setreuid(2) setreuid(2)
NAME
setreuid - set real and effective user ID's
SYNOPSIS
setreuid(ruid, euid)
int ruid, euid;
DESCRIPTION
The real and effective user ID's 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. Only the super-user
may modify the real uid of a process. Users other than the
super-user may change the effective uid of a process only to
the real uid.
RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.
Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and 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), setregid(2), setuid(3).
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