getluid(3)getluid(3)NAME
getluid, setluid - Get or set the login UID (Enhanced Security)
SYNOPSIS
#include <prot.h>
uid_t getluid( ); #include <prot.h>
int setluid(
uid );
LIBRARY
Security Library - libsecurity.so
PARAMETERS
An integer representing the user ID being requested.
DESCRIPTION
The getluid() function gets the login UID associated with the process.
The login UID is recorded with most audit events generated by the
process, and is sometimes referred to as the audit UID (AUID). If the
login UID has not been set yet, getluid() returns an error.
The setluid() function sets the login UID for a process and all its
descendants.
RETURN VALUES
The getluid() function returns the actual UID on success and a -1 for
failure. The setluid() function returns 0 for success and -1 for fail‐
ure.
SEE ALSO
Security
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