From: Leslie Viljoen <leslie@...>
Date: 2005-08-25T18:32:58+09:00
Subject: getuid

Hello everyone!

I am struggling to detect in a script whether the current user is root or
not. Etc.getlogin seems to return my unpriveleged username even after
I have done an 'su' or run the script with 'sudo' to become root.

All I really need is:

if Etc.getuid != 0
    puts "You are not root"
    exit
end



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