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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-09-12 14:23:02 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-09-12 16:54:36 +0100 |
| commit | 0e332aef5fac0346fae7f42e909e98cfbe2d46e5 (patch) | |
| tree | f8a3df92ef0f62bb5b535fd68175b08e4f13b4dc | |
| parent | 02a0d14238c08d12bb9bdde52e268a0127567475 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-0e332aef5fac0346fae7f42e909e98cfbe2d46e5.tar.gz | |
setresuid.2: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/setresuid.2 | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man2/setresuid.2 b/man2/setresuid.2 index 27903859b1..b54c140b24 100644 --- a/man2/setresuid.2 +++ b/man2/setresuid.2 @@ -40,14 +40,13 @@ setresuid, setresgid \- set real, effective and saved user or group ID sets the real user ID, the effective user ID, and the saved set-user-ID of the calling process. -Unprivileged user processes -may change the real UID, +An unprivileged process may change its real UID, effective UID, and saved set-user-ID, each to one of: the current real UID, the current effective UID or the current saved set-user-ID. -Privileged processes (on Linux, those having the \fBCAP_SETUID\fP capability) -may set the real UID, effective UID, and +A privileged process (on Linux, one having the \fBCAP_SETUID\fP capability) +may set its real UID, effective UID, and saved set-user-ID to arbitrary values. If one of the arguments equals \-1, the corresponding value is not changed. |