Doc #67082 [NEW]: posix_seteuid does not set the real id

From: john at etailz dot com Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Documentation problem Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:posix_seteuid does not set the real id Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.posix-seteuid --- The docs state posix_seteuid sets the real user id of the process. It does not. It sets the effective user id. Test script: --------------- echo " Setting UID to ".UID."\n"; echo " USER ID ".posix_getuid()."\n"; echo " USER ID ".posix_geteuid()."\n"; if(posix_seteuid(UID)){ echo " Successfully set the UID\n"; } else { echo " Setting UID failed\n"; } echo " USER ID ".posix_getuid()."\n"; echo " USER ID ".posix_geteuid()."\n"; -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67082&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67082&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67082&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67082&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67082&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67082&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67082&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67082&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67082&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67082&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67082&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67082&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67082&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67082&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67082&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67082&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67082&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67082&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67082&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67082&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67082&r=mysqlcfg