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Diffstat (limited to 'man2/setuid.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/setuid.2 | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man2/setuid.2 b/man2/setuid.2 index e54577db69..1c038f0bfc 100644 --- a/man2/setuid.2 +++ b/man2/setuid.2 @@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ the real UID and saved set-user-ID are also set. .PP Under Linux, .BR setuid () -is implemented like the POSIX version with the _POSIX_SAVED_IDS feature. +is implemented like the POSIX version with the +.B _POSIX_SAVED_IDS +feature. This allows a set-user-ID (other than root) program to drop all of its user privileges, do some un-privileged work, and then re-engage the original effective user ID in a secure manner. |