changeing users on linux

[Mike Meyer]

darkchild50 at gmail.com writes:

> the password is for loging into root

The setuid call will fail unless you're already root. You can't, as
some user other than root, change your userid, so the answer to
the original question with the added restriction is "You can't".

     <mike
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