envuidgid(8)

envuidgid8

Runs another program with environment variables indicating a specified account's uid and gid.

Usage

envuidgid account child

Overview

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

envuidgid sets $UID to account's uid and $GID to account's gid. It then runs child.

Exit status

envuidgid exits 111 if it cannot find a UNIX account named account, if it runs out of memory for environment variables, or if it cannot run child. Otherwise its exit code is the same as that of child.

Releases

Unchanged in 9 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

  1. 5.0–13

From daemontools 1:0.76-14 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.