Re: The pythonic way equal to "whoami"

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On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:58:17 +0800, TheSaint wrote:

>> os.geteuid
> This return 0 for *root* . I don't know if it's a standard for all distro.

UID 0 is the "superuser". The name "root" is conventional, but it's the
EUID (effective UID) which is used in permission checks; the kernel
doesn't care about names.

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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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