setuid() and getenv()?

[vertigo]

Hello
i need to read $PATH variable for all users.
I wanted to use something like setuid() and getenv() in C.
Are there similar functions here ?
(if not how can i do it ?)

Thanx
Michal

 

[Joe Smith]

i need to read $PATH variable for all users.
I wanted to use something like setuid() and getenv() in C.
Are there similar functions here ?

See the docs on perlvar for the setuid() equivalent.

C: currentpath = getenv("PATH"); => Perl: $currentpath = $ENV{PATH};

For an idea on how to get a list of all users, their home directories,
and login shells:

perl -le 'while(@pw=getpwent){print join " : ",@pw[0,7,8]}'

Executing the user's login shell, as in
chdir $home; ($>,$)) = ($uid,$gid); $path=`$shell -c 'echo $PATH'`;
is an unacceptable security risk.

-Joe

P.S. Next time, post to comp.lang.perl.misc instead of comp.lang.perl.