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stime(2)							System Calls Manual							  stime(2)

NAME
stime() - set time and date SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
The system call sets the system time and date. tp points to the value of time as measured in seconds from 00:00:00 on January 1, 1970, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Security Restrictions Some or all of the actions associated with this system call require the privilege. Processes owned by the superuser will have this privi- lege. Processes owned by other users may have this privilege, depending on system configuration. See privileges(5) for more information about privileged access on systems that support fine-grained privileges. RETURN VALUE
returns the following values: Successful completion. Failure. is set to indicate the error. ERRORS
If fails, is set to one of the following values. The calling process does not have the privilege. The parameter points to an invalid (negative) time value. The parameter is an invalid address. SEE ALSO
date(1), gettimeofday(2), time(2), privileges(5). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
stime(2)

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setauduser(3)						     Library Functions Manual						     setauduser(3)

NAME
setauduser - start auditing the current process as owned by a given user SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
sets which uniquely identifies the user for the current process. The user argument points to the name of the login user associated with the current process, and must not exceed the longest user name that HP-UX supports. can be used to dynamically get the longest user name that HP-UX supports. The stime argument points to time of authentication in the format YYYYMMDDhhmm, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). If stime is a null pointer, the UTC of the current time is used. Programs using this routine must be compiled with Security Restrictions This call requires the user to be superuser or to possess the privilege. See privileges(5) for details. RETURN VALUE
returns the following values: n Successful completion. n is the length of accepted by the kernel. Failure. is set to indicate the error. ERRORS
If fails, is set to one of the following values: user is NULL, or the length of user exceeds the longest user name that HP-UX supports. The length of stime is not equal to bytes. See The caller is not a superuser or a privileged process. AUTHOR
was developed by HP. SEE ALSO
getaudid(2), setaudid(2), sysconf(2), getauduser(3), audit(5), privileges(5). setauduser(3)
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