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| author |   aaron <aaron@openbsd.org> | 2000-10-18 05:12:06 +0000 |
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| committer | aaron <aaron@openbsd.org> | 2000-10-18 05:12:06 +0000 |
| commit | ea418ffe85da8239e30bb1c3e28466cf6b8f685e (patch) | |
| tree | 01651b197bba18ec88ec6a378fec58207d2f3632 /lib/libc/sys/setuid.2 | |
| parent | get the bounds checking right for the data used in copyout() in several (diff) | |
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Another round of man page cleanup, this time to remove more hard sentence
breaks and getting rid of short lines, making these files easier to work with.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/setuid.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/setuid.2 | 31 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/setuid.2 b/lib/libc/sys/setuid.2 index f7c06d00754..558700fa280 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/setuid.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/setuid.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: setuid.2,v 1.9 1999/07/02 20:58:01 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: setuid.2,v 1.10 2000/10/18 05:12:11 aaron Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: setuid.2,v 1.3 1995/02/27 12:37:06 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 @@ -57,29 +57,25 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn setuid -function -sets the real and effective -user IDs and the saved set-user-ID of the current process -to the specified value. +function sets the real and effective user IDs and the saved set-user-ID +of the current process to the specified value. The .Fn setuid -function is permitted if the effective user ID is that of the super user, -or if the specified user ID is the same as the effective user ID. If -not, but the specified user ID is the same as the real user ID, +function is permitted if the effective user ID is that of the superuser, +or if the specified user ID is the same as the effective user ID. +If not, but the specified user ID is the same as the real user ID, .Fn setuid will set the effective user ID to the real user ID. .Pp The .Fn setgid -function -sets the real and effective -group IDs and the saved set-group-ID of the current process -to the specified value. +function sets the real and effective groups IDs and the saved set-group-ID +of the current process to the specified value. The .Fn setgid -function is permitted if the effective user ID is that of the super user, -or if the specified group ID is the same as the effective group ID. If -not, but the specified group ID is the same as the real group ID, +function is permitted if the effective user ID is that of the superuser, +or if the specified group ID is the same as the effective group ID. +If not, but the specified group ID is the same as the real group ID, .Fn setgid will set the effective group ID to the real group ID. .Pp @@ -87,8 +83,7 @@ The .Fn seteuid function .Pq Fn setegid -sets the effective user ID (group ID) of the -current process. +sets the effective user ID (group ID) of the current process. The effective user ID may be set to the value of the real user ID or the saved set-user-ID (see .Xr intro 2 @@ -103,7 +98,7 @@ of the real group ID or the saved set-group-ID. Upon success, these functions return 0; otherwise \-1 is returned. .Pp -If the user is not the super user, or the uid +If the user is not the superuser, or the UID specified is not the real, effective ID, or saved ID, these functions return \-1. .Sh SEE ALSO |