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From: jaw7_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Joe Unix User)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Need Help!
Keywords: help, question, UID, EUID
Message-ID: <12450@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 91 06:17:12 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Rochester, Rochester NY
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Summary:UID's *2



Question:
	I have two accounts on the same machine and for disk quota
purposes split my files so that some are in one directory & some in the other, 
and for security reasons I am not willing to set any global write permissions 
(too many people like me out there :^)); it is very inconvienient (sp?) to
relogin with id#2 just to edit a file or such . . . 
and I was wondering if there was some way to set the UID to id#2 
while logged in as id#1 ???

	I tried using a setuid( geteuid() )  with the file owned by id#2
but this does not work (UID and EUID both =id#1).   Am I misunderstanding
the concept of EUID's?  Is there a way to do this ( in say 'c' ) ????
I've searched the man pages but they were very sparse in this area.
I'm on a Sun3 with SunOS 4.0.3.


                         Thanks,
                               Jeff (Joe Unix User)
 
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