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Old 01-10-2010, 09:58 PM   #1
Anoop Madhusoodhanan P
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Arrow What is effective user ID and effective group Id


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Can someone explain what is effective User Id and effective group Id..How the values are decided for a process in Linux?

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Old 01-11-2010, 03:29 PM   #2
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There's a pretty good write up explaining this here.
 
  


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