On 13 Sep 99, Ian Flanigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Erik Arneson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hmmm. I really don't know. What is the file's uid and gid ownership
> > used for? Are there any other commands which return this sort of
> > information? You mentioned already that 'id' doesn't work on all
> > systems. Maybe there's something else?
>
> If you wanted to be wicked-gross, you could look for perl and do:
>
> perl -e 'print "uid=$> euid=$< groups=$( egroups=$)\n";'
>
> Or write a small C program to do the same and hunt for the compiler. This is
> probably a bit too much, but you could do it.
>
> Other things that muck with uid are:
>
> whoami
> /proc/self/status
>
> Or you could use a bit-o-shell-script like:
I don't think anybody is going to want random shell scripts copied to
their other accounts...or C code. I know that bash puts your uid in
$UID and the effective uid in $EUID.
On FreeBSD, whoami only displays your username, and the /proc filesystem
doesn't contain anything that'd be of use. Go figure, huh?
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