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SETREGID(2) System Calls Manual SETREGID(2)

setregidset real and effective group IDs

#include <unistd.h>

int
setregid(gid_t rgid, gid_t egid);

The real and effective group IDs of the current process are set according to the arguments. The saved group ID will be set to the new value of the real group ID if a real group ID is specified and either the new real group ID value is different from the current value or the effective group ID is changed to a value other than the current saved group ID.

Unprivileged users may change either group ID to the current value of the real, effective, or saved group ID. Only the superuser may make other changes.

Supplying a value of -1 for either the real or effective group ID forces the system to substitute the current ID in place of the -1 parameter.

The () function was intended to allow swapping the real and effective group IDs in set-group-ID programs to temporarily relinquish the set-group-ID value. This purpose is now better served by the use of the setegid(2) function.

When setting the real and effective group IDs to the same value, the setgid(2) function is preferred.

Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.

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The current process is not the superuser and a change other than changing the effective group ID to the real group ID was specified.

getgid(2), setegid(2), setgid(2), setresgid(2), setreuid(2)

The setregid() function conforms to the IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (“POSIX.1”) and. specifications.

Note, however, that prior to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (“POSIX.1”), the setregid() function was not a part of the IEEE Std 1003.1 (“POSIX.1”) specification. As a result, it may not be implemented on all systems.

The setregid() function call appeared in 4.2BSD. A semantically different version appeared in 4.4BSD. The current version, with the original semantics restored, appeared in OpenBSD 3.3.

The setregid() function predates POSIX saved group IDs. This implementation changes the saved group ID to the new value of the real group ID only if the real group ID is specified and either changed or the effective group ID is changed to a value other than the current saved group ID. Other implementations may behave differently.

August 4, 2008 OpenBSD-5.1