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GETUID(2) Linux Programmer's Manual GETUID(2)
getuid, geteuid - get user identity
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
uid_t getuid(void);
uid_t geteuid(void);
getuid() returns the real user ID of the calling process.
geteuid() returns the effective user ID of the calling process.
These functions are always successful.
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, 4.3BSD.
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.
getresuid(2), setreuid(2), setuid(2), credentials(7)
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Linux 2015-08-08 GETUID(2)
Pages that refer to this page: gawk(1), groups(1@@shadow-utils), ps(1), getresuid(2), seteuid(2), setpgid(2), setresuid(2), setreuid(2), setuid(2), syscalls(2), getlogin(3), pam_close_session(3), pam_open_session(3), credentials(7), signal-safety(7), user_namespaces(7)