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On Thu, Feb 13, 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:00:10PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>On Tue, Feb 11, 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Does openpkg's rc script depend on /usr/ucb/whoami ? Is there a better = way to >>> check simply that a user has effective id root? I'd like to avoid havin= g to add >>> /usr/ucb to root's PATH if possible, and more importantly avoid probs w= ith 'su' >>> vs. 'su -', etc. >>> >>[...] >>> >>> # who am i >>> guest pts/4 Feb 9 19:37 (laptop-a) >>> # whoami >>> root >>> # >> >>Yes, this is a known problem. Today's OpenPKG 'rc' bourne shell bundled >>with OpenPKG 1.[0-2] prefers 'whoami' to discover the username, but will >>use 'who' as the next alternative. It seems that you've learned this >>yourself the hard way, because running 'who am i' does not return the >>correct username in some cases. >=20 > May I suggest using the ``id'' program in place of ``who'' or ``whoami'' > (it's already in the coreutils and could be added to the bootstrap > binaries)? The ``id'' program is far more flexible, returning numric uid, > gid, or names depending on the options. At least on Linux systems, it's > well integrated with the underlying authentication method, using > /etc/nsswitch.conf, to return the appropriate information from files, nis, > ldap, etc. as necessary. >=20 It is a good idea, though I also view growing of the bootstrap as a hefty disadvantage. That should be kept as simple as possible, and might outweigh the easier macro usage you mentioned. In any case, I'll leave the decision = up to Ralf the bootstrap architect. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Development Team, Application Services Cable & Wireless Deutschland GmbH --DKU6Jbt7q3WqK7+M Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia+4K iQEVAgUBPkwHFFuYv80UoVTdAQF2xAf9EvKnboX9iBY21znQ2XHpJPOLJ9G+7mbu 3u64AZ//otWt/bDpb5mao2y5crZsNn77FKDRGcVWczALVEVM7FtyV1OwAxWyPk1T hdIXN1piNmWlFN/Gh6A+011KjqcCnHBVc01SjAu9OjoHnoebT9Euw9ildfTymfig 2NuveiMlreCXl7IgXE4xPLfR/vH9b/MYtGYeKOkWfRrA/HDOXGjEAP0Ab7Yl7obi 2SgseIPiZqF2AMaLRfLtsP7TzgDDgANxbtzoEULmsz28xOw9tC0wTOtu4DZ4oim1 PTfWSUEj7/ucOk2n4ryxcdlqyOpVPJPUGCs/fNfbFOe9oJZrSrKT6w== =f/gE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DKU6Jbt7q3WqK7+M-- ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
