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+- Allows uid switching as a normal user.
+
+- Start any application making it believe it is running as root.
+
+- Support for user/group changing in the local thread using the syscalls
+  (like glibc).
+
+- More precisely this library intercepts seteuid and related calls, and
+  simulates them in a manner similar to the nss_wrapper and socket_wrapper
+  libraries.
+
+Some projects like a file server need privilege separation to be able to switch
+to the connection user and do file operations. uid_wrapper convincingly lies to
+the application letting it believe it is operating as root and even switching
+between UIDs and GIDs as needed.
+
+WWW: https://cwrap.org/