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| From | Christopher Head <chead@is.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: The pythonic way equal to "whoami" |
| Date | 2011-06-08 13:08 -0700 |
| Organization | solani.org |
| Message-ID | <20110608130845.250b0950@kruskal.chead> (permalink) |
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On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:58:17 +0800 TheSaint <nobody@nowhere.net.no> wrote: > Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > > os.geteuid > This return 0 for *root* . I don't know if it's a standard for all > distro. Mine is Archlinux. > I'd just like to avoid error caused by wrong access by user > It is. Until Linux capabilities, EUID==0 used to be special-cased in the kernel as being the test for binding to network ports <1024, bypassing filesystem access control, changing the system time, and so on. Since Linux caps, it's theoretically possible to use a different UID, but for compatibility and convenience, as well as because PID 1 (/sbin/init) is still invoked by the kernel as UID 0, everyone still does that. Chris
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The pythonic way equal to "whoami" TheSaint <nobody@nowhere.net.no> - 2011-06-07 22:24 +0800
Re: The pythonic way equal to "whoami" Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+python@gmail.com> - 2011-06-07 20:29 +0530
Re: The pythonic way equal to "whoami" TheSaint <nobody@nowhere.net.no> - 2011-06-08 21:58 +0800
Re: The pythonic way equal to "whoami" Christopher Head <chead@is.invalid> - 2011-06-08 13:08 -0700
Re: The pythonic way equal to "whoami" TheSaint <nobody@nowhere.net.no> - 2011-06-09 19:34 +0800
Re: The pythonic way equal to "whoami" Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-06-09 03:38 +0100
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