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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 charlies permissions. Compare RealID.

SEE ALSO

geteuid(2), getegid(2)