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Newer page: version 3 Last edited on Monday, May 15, 2006 12:56:37 pm by CraigBox
Older page: version 2 Last edited on Monday, December 30, 2002 3:50:31 am by PerryLorier Revert
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-The effective [UID]/[GID] is the user (or group) that a process's privilege checks are done against. For instance if a user ''bob'' runs a program that is [SetUid ] ''charlie'' then the effective user ID of the process is ''charlie'', not ''bob'' since the process is running with ''charlie''s permissions. Compare [RealID]. 
+The effective [UID]/[GID] is the user (or group) that a process's privilege checks are done against. For instance if a user ''bob'' runs a program that is [SUID ] ''charlie'' then the effective user ID of the process is ''charlie'', not ''bob'' since the process is running with ''charlie''s permissions. Compare [RealID]. 
  
 !!SEE ALSO 
 geteuid(2), getegid(2)