From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2009-01-28T09:45:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Super User Can't Change UID?

On Jan 27, 2009, at 6:26 PM, James Gray wrote:

> 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
>


It works for me on Ubuntu and Mac OS X also.

-Rob

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