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Top Forums Programming Help with getuid Post 302893897 by Corona688 on Friday 21st of March 2014 02:06:53 PM

03-21-2014

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"Has errors" is not really a useful thing to say. What errors it had would've been much more helpful. If you'd posted those errors, someone else could tell I'd misspelled some function names -- not to mention some other errors in my code, which was written in a real hurry. Sorry about that, this one actually compiles:

Try this:

Code:

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <pwd.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
        const char *user="user";
        struct passwd *p=getpwnam(user);

        if(p != NULL)
                printf("name %s UID %d GID %d\n", user, (int)p->pw_name, p->pw_uid, (int)p->pw_gid);
        else fprintf(stderr, "No such user '%s'\n", user);
}

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

NAME

       getuid, geteuid - get user identity

SYNOPSIS

       #include <unistd.h>
       #include <sys/types.h>

       uid_t getuid(void);
       uid_t geteuid(void);

DESCRIPTION

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

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

ERRORS

       These functions are always successful.

CONFORMING TO

       POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD.

NOTES

   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  ker-
       nel versions.

SEE ALSO

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

COLOPHON

       This  page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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