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Financial group trusts Linux platform to protect customers' assets

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:02:00 GMT
Western & Southern Financial Group provides insurance and investment advice for businesses and consumers. The conservative nature of the business means that Western & Southern needed the most secure and reliable infrastructure available. After years of running the Sybase database on Sun's Solaris servers, IT Systems Manager Paul Jackson recognized the need to get the platform "up to speed." When he checked on the cost to replace the proprietary hardware and operating system the company had relied on for so long, it was so expensive that he began looking for another solution.


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SETEGID(3P)						     POSIX Programmer's Manual						       SETEGID(3P)

PROLOG
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the correspond- ing Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux. NAME
setegid -- set the effective group ID SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> int setegid(gid_t gid); DESCRIPTION
If gid is equal to the real group ID or the saved set-group-ID, or if the process has appropriate privileges, setegid() shall set the effective group ID of the calling process to gid; the real group ID, saved set-group-ID, and any supplementary group IDs shall remain unchanged. The setegid() function shall not affect the supplementary group list in any way. RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, 0 shall be returned; otherwise, -1 shall be returned and errno set to indicate the error. ERRORS
The setegid() function shall fail if: EINVAL The value of the gid argument is invalid and is not supported by the implementation. EPERM The process does not have appropriate privileges and gid does not match the real group ID or the saved set-group-ID. The following sections are informative. EXAMPLES
None. APPLICATION USAGE
None. RATIONALE
Refer to the RATIONALE section in setuid(). FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None. SEE ALSO
exec, getegid(), geteuid(), getgid(), getuid(), seteuid(), setgid(), setregid(), setreuid(), setuid() The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2008, <sys_types.h>, <unistd.h> COPYRIGHT
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technol- ogy -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Stan- dard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.unix.org/online.html . Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html . IEEE
/The Open Group 2013 SETEGID(3P)