From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-01-28T08:26:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Super User Can't Change UID?

On Jan 27, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Michel Boaventura wrote:

> This works on my gentoo without any problem. Try to became root and
> try to run to see if it's another problem.

It doesn't seem to work for me that way either:

$ sudo sh
Password:
sh-3.2# ruby -r etc -e 'Process.uid = Etc.getpwnam("james").uid'
-e:1:in `uid=': Operation not permitted (Errno::EPERM)
	from -e:1

James Edward Gray II