NAME

Proc::UID - Manipulate a variety of UID and GID settings.

SYNOPSIS

use Proc::UID;

WARNING

This release of Proc::UID is for testing and review purposes only. Please do not use it in production code. The interface may change, and the underlying code has not yet been rigourously tested.

DESCRIPTION

Perl only has concepts of effective and real UIDs, whereas a number of operating systems have further concepts, such as saved UIDs. This module is intended to provide a way for those additional UIDs to be manipulated.

A number of functions are provided to perform logical operations, such as irrevocably dropping privileges.

BUGS

Many operating systems have different interfaces into their extra UIDs. This module has not yet been tested under all of them.

AUTHOR

Paul Fenwick pjf@cpan.org

Copyright (c) 2004 Paul Fenwick. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

perlsec and perlvar