What is Effective User ID?

**arne** · Feb 10 '08, 12:32 PM

Originally posted by KiranJyothi

Hello All,

Can anyone please tell me what is an Effective User ID ?

Thanks in advance.

-Jyothi

Here is an explanation (plus example):

HTH,
arne

**kvmreddy** · Mar 29 '10, 03:05 PM

check bellow link, I explained here with an example

After you have worked for a while with Linux you discover probably that there is much more to file permissions than just the "rwx" bits. ...

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