One possible way ...
<?php $user = `whoami`; echo $user; ?>
$php whoami.php
jonbaer
$sudo php whoami.php
root
- Jon
On Jul 26, 2007, at 8:29 PM, Michael B Allen wrote:
Hi,
How does one determine if a command line PHP script is being
executed as root?
If there's no posix extension there's no posix_getuid and if the user
did 'su' and not 'su -' then the USER environment variable may not be
root.
Any other ways?
Mike
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