On Jan 5, 2006, at 5:53 PM, James Reynolds wrote:
I know I can get this with `whoami`, but I was wondering if there
was a "Perl" way to find the user who executed the script. I
basically want to make it so my script is executable by normal
users, but prints an error if it is not only the root user.
The $< variable has the real user id, and $> is the effective user id.
If you need more than the numeric user ID, have a look at:
perldoc getpwnam
perldoc User::pwent
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