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setuid

(C++) SetUID

SetUID is part of a (?which?) library and is used in many utilities. Providing the system administrator runs a program that uses this command, it will set the effect UID(user id) to the user specified in the program. This is used so that you can start programs as the root user, they can open the resources they need, and change to an unpriveliged user for security purposed. Daemons such as Apache and MySQL use this frequently.
last edited (November 18, 2006) by bilderbikkel, Number of views: 1821, Current Rev: 3 (Diff)

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