NAME

setreuid − set real and effective user ID’s

SYNOPSIS

#include <unistd.h>

int
setreuid(ruid, euid)
    uid_t ruid, 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 preferred. 

RETURN VALUES

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), seteuid(2), setuid(2)

HISTORY

The setreuid function call appeared in 4.2BSD and was dropped in 4.4BSD. 

4th Berkeley Distribution  —  December 3, 1997