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NAME

       setuidgid  -  runs  another program under a specified account’s uid and
       gid.

SYNOPSIS

       setuidgid account child

DESCRIPTION

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

       setuidgid  sets  its uid and gid to account’s uid and gid, removing all
       supplementary groups. It then runs child.

       setuidgid cannot be run by anyone other than root.

EXIT CODES

       setuidgid exits 111 if it cannot find a UNIX account named account,  if
       it  cannot  setgid,  if  it  cannot  setuid, or if it cannot run child.
       Otherwise its exit code is the same as that of child.

SEE ALSO

       supervise(8), svc(8),  svok(8),  svstat(8),  svscanboot(8),  svscan(8),
       readproctitle(8),   fghack(8),   pgrphack(8),  multilog(8),  tai64n(8),
       tai64nlocal(8), envuidgid(8), envdir(8), softlimit(8), setlock(8)

       http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

                                                                  setuidgid(8)