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Revision 1.3, Fri Apr 14 10:30:34 2000 UTC (24 years, 1 month ago) by markus
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: OPENBSD_2_7_BASE
Branch point for: OPENBSD_2_7
Changes since 1.2: +5 -5 lines 

whitespace cleanup

/*
 *
 * uidswap.h
 *
 * Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
 *
 * Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
 *                    All rights reserved
 *
 * Created: Sat Sep  9 01:43:15 1995 ylo
 * Last modified: Sat Sep  9 02:34:04 1995 ylo
 *
 */

#ifndef UIDSWAP_H
#define UIDSWAP_H

/*
 * Temporarily changes to the given uid.  If the effective user id is not
 * root, this does nothing.  This call cannot be nested.
 */
void    temporarily_use_uid(uid_t uid);

/*
 * Restores the original effective user id after temporarily_use_uid().
 * This should only be called while temporarily_use_uid is effective.
 */
void    restore_uid();

/*
 * Permanently sets all uids to the given uid.  This cannot be called while
 * temporarily_use_uid is effective.  This must also clear any saved uids.
 */
void    permanently_set_uid(uid_t uid);

#endif				/* UIDSWAP_H */