getuid

[Leslie Viljoen]

Hello everyone!

I am struggling to detect in a script whether the current user is root or
not. Etc.getlogin seems to return my unpriveleged username even after
I have done an 'su' or run the script with 'sudo' to become root.

All I really need is:

if Etc.getuid != 0
puts "You are not root"
exit
end



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ruby -e "puts 'Just another fickle programmer'"

Leslie Viljoen [[email protected]]
Camary Consulting [http://www.camary.co.za]
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Personal web [http://mobeus.homelinux.org]

 

[Bruce Woodward]

irb(main):004:0> if Process.euid !=3D 0
irb(main):005:1> puts "you are not root"
irb(main):006:1> end
you are not root
=3D> nil