sunos man page for ucred

Ucred(3PERL)						      Perl Library Functions						      Ucred(3PERL)

NAME
       Ucred - Perl interface to User Credentials

SYNOPSIS
       use Sun::Solaris::Ucred qw(:ALL);

DESCRIPTION
       This module provides wrappers for the Ucred-related system and library calls.

   Constants
       None.

   Functions
       ucred_get($pid)

	   This  function  returns  the  credential of the process specified by $pid if the process exists and the calling process is permitted to
	   obtain the credentials of that process.

       getpeerucred($fd)

	   If $fd is a connected connection-oriented TLI endpoint, a connected SOCK_STREAM, or a SOCK_SEQPKT socket,  getpeerucred()  returns  the
	   user credential of the peer at the time the connection was established, if availble.

       ucred_geteuid($ucred)

	   This function returns the effective uid of a user credential, if available.

       ucred_getruid($ucred)

	   This function returns the real uid of a user credential, if available.

       ucred_getsuid($ucred)

	   This function returns the saved uid of a user credential, if available.

       ucred_getegid($ucred)

	   This function returns the effective group of a user credential, if available.

       ucred_getrgid($ucred)

	   This function returns the real group of a user credential, if available.

       ucred_getsgid($ucred)

	   This function returns the saved group of a user credential, if available.

       ucred_getgroups($ucred)

	   This  function  returns the list of supplemental groups of a user credential, if available.An array of groups is returned in ARRAY con-
	   text; the number of groups is returned in SCALAR context.

       ucred_getprivset($ucred, $which)

	   This function returns the privilege set specified by $which of a user credential, if available.

       ucred_getpflags($ucred, $flags)

	   This function returns the value of a specific process flag of a user credential, if available.

       ucred_getpid($ucred)

	   This function returns the process ID of a user credential, if available.

       ucred_getprojid($ucred)

	   This function returns the project ID of a user credential, if available.

       ucred_getzoneid($ucred)

	   This function returns the zone ID of a user credential, if available.

   Class methods
       None.

   Object methods
       None.

   Exports
       By default nothing is exported from this module. The following tags can be used to selectively import constants and  functions  defined	in
       this module:

       :SYSCALLS       ucred_get(), getpeerucred()

       :LIBCALLS       ucred_geteuid(),  ucred_getruid(),  ucred_getsuid(),  ucred_getegid(), ucred_getrgid(), ucred_getsgid(), ucred_getgroups(),
		       ucred_getprivset(), ucred_getpflags(), ucred_getpid(), ucred_getzone()

       :ALL	       :SYSCALLS(), :LIBCALLS()

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWpl5u			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO
       getpeerucred(3C), ucred_get(3C), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    30 Jan 2004 						      Ucred(3PERL)