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NAME

setusergroups - set uid/gid/supplementary groups

SYNOPSIS

$ setusergroups account child

DESCRIPTION

account is a single argument. child consists of one or more arguments.

setusergroups sets its uid and gid to account's uid and gid, removing all supplementary groups. It then runs child.

setusergroups exits 111 if it cannot find a UNIX account named account, if it cannot setgid, if it cannot setuid, if it cannot initgroups, or if it cannot run child. Otherwise its exit code is the same as that of child.

setusergroups cannot be run by anyone other than root.

setuidgid vs setusergroups

setusergroups support for supplementary groups.

INSTALL

This tool uses autotools.

$ ./configure
$ make && make install

LICENSE

The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (C) 2015 Tokuhiro Matsuno, http://64p.org/ <tokuhirom@gmail.com>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.

SEE ALSO

This C program is port of https://gist.github.com/kazuho/6181648.