setresuid() function

tychebe (37)in #security • 8 years ago

□ SET Real uid, Effective uid, Saved set-User-ID

□ Function that modifies a process's "real UID", "effective UID" and "saved set-user-ID"

□ Unprivileged process configures each UID as current process's one(=Modification is impossible)

□ Privileged process(=having CAP_SETUID authority) configures each UID as arbitrary values

□ If it is successful it returns 0 and if an error is occured it returns -1

#setresuid #linux #uid

8 years ago in #security by tychebe (37)

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