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authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1995-10-18 08:53:40 +0000
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+.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
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+.\" from: @(#)setreuid.2 6.4 (Berkeley) 3/10/91
+.\" $Id: setreuid.3,v 1.1 1995/10/18 08:41:46 deraadt Exp $
+.\"
+.Dd March 10, 1991
+.Dt SETREUID 3
+.Os BSD 4
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm setreuid
+.Nd set real and effective user ID's
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <unistd.h>
+.Ft int
+.Fn setreuid "int ruid" "int euid"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The real and effective user ID's of the
+current process are set according to the arguments.
+If
+.Fa ruid
+or
+.Fa 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.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn 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
+.Fn seteuid
+function (see
+.Xr setuid 2 ).
+.Pp
+When setting the real and effective user IDs to the same value, the standard
+.Fn setuid
+function is preferred.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise,
+a value of -1 is returned and
+.Va errno
+is set to indicate the error.
+.Sh ERRORS
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er 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.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr getuid 2 ,
+.Xr seteuid 2 ,
+.Xr setuid 2
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn setreuid
+function call appeared in
+.Bx 4.2
+and was dropped in
+.Bx 4.4 .