NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | ERRORS | CONFORMING TO | NOTES | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

GETUID(2)                 Linux Programmer's Manual                GETUID(2)

NAME         top

       getuid, geteuid - get user identity

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <unistd.h>
       #include <sys/types.h>
       uid_t getuid(void);
       uid_t geteuid(void);

DESCRIPTION         top

       getuid() returns the real user ID of the calling process.
       geteuid() returns the effective user ID of the calling process.

ERRORS         top

       These functions are always successful.

CONFORMING TO         top

       POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, 4.3BSD.

NOTES         top

   History
       In UNIX V6 the getuid() call returned (euid << 8) + uid.  UNIX V7
       introduced separate calls getuid() and geteuid().
       The original Linux getuid() and geteuid() system calls supported only
       16-bit user IDs.  Subsequently, Linux 2.4 added getuid32() and
       geteuid32(), supporting 32-bit IDs.  The glibc getuid() and geteuid()
       wrapper functions transparently deal with the variations across
       kernel versions.

SEE ALSO         top

       getresuid(2), setreuid(2), setuid(2), credentials(7)

COLOPHON         top

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Linux                            2015-08-08                        GETUID(2)

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