SECURE_PATH(3) BSD Library Functions Manual SECURE_PATH(3)
NAME
secure_path -- determine if a file appears to be ``secure''
LIBRARY
System Utilities Library (libutil, -lutil)
SYNOPSIS
#include <util.h>
int
secure_path(const char *path);
DESCRIPTION
The secure_path() function takes a path name and returns zero if the referenced file is ``secure'', non-zero if not. Any ``insecurity'',
other than failure to access the referenced file, will be logged to the system log.
To be ``secure'', the referenced file must exist, be a regular file (and not a directory), owned by the super-user, and writable only by the
super-user.
SEE ALSO
openlog(3)
HISTORY
The secure_path() function is based on the BSD/OS implementation of same, and appeared in NetBSD 1.5 by kind permission.
BSD
May 4, 2010 BSD
