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SETEUID(2) Linux Programmer's Manual SETEUID(2)
NAME
seteuid, setegid - set effective user or group ID
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int seteuid(uid_t euid);
int setegid(gid_t egid);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
seteuid(), setegid():
_BSD_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600
DESCRIPTION
seteuid() sets the effective user ID of the calling process. Unprivileged user processes
may only set the effective user ID to the real user ID, the effective user ID or the saved
set-user-ID.
Precisely the same holds for setegid() with "group" instead of "user".
RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.
Note: there are cases where seteuid() can fail even when the caller is UID 0; it is a
grave security error to omit checking for a failure return from seteuid().
ERRORS
EINVAL The target user or group ID is not valid in this user namespace.
EPERM The calling process is not privileged (Linux: does not have the CAP_SETUID capabil‐
ity in the case of seteuid(), or the CAP_SETGID capability in the case of sete‐
gid()) and euid (respectively, egid) is not the real user (group) ID, the effective
user (group) ID, or the saved set-user-ID (saved set-group-ID).
CONFORMING TO
4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES
Setting the effective user (group) ID to the saved set-user-ID (saved set-group-ID) is
possible since Linux 1.1.37 (1.1.38). On an arbitrary system one should check
_POSIX_SAVED_IDS.
Under glibc 2.0 seteuid(euid) is equivalent to setreuid(-1, euid) and hence may change the
saved set-user-ID. Under glibc 2.1 and later it is equivalent to setresuid(-1, euid, -1)
and hence does not change the saved set-user-ID. Analogous remarks hold for setegid(),
with the difference that the change in implementation from setregid(-1, egid) to setres‐
gid(-1, egid, -1) occurred in glibc 2.2 or 2.3 (depending on the hardware architecture).
According to POSIX.1, seteuid() (setegid()) need not permit euid (egid) to be the same
value as the current effective user (group) ID, and some implementations do not permit
this.
C library/kernel ABI differences
On Linux, seteuid() and setegid() are implemented as library functions that call, respec‐
tively, setreuid(2) and setresgid(2).
SEE ALSO
geteuid(2), setresuid(2), setreuid(2), setuid(2), capabilities(7), credentials(7),
user_namespaces(7)
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