Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: TheSaint Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: The pythonic way equal to "whoami" Followup-To: comp.lang.python Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:58:17 +0800 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 9 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: j+tlNLhYp+qkC421IdmA7w.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: KNode/4.4.11 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:7235 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 -- goto /dev/null