From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-01-28T12:06:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Super User Can't Change UID?

On Jan 27, 2009, at 9:00 PM, Rob Biedenharn wrote:

> On Jan 27, 2009, at 9:34 PM, James Gray wrote:
>
>> On Jan 27, 2009, at 6:45 PM, Rob Biedenharn wrote:
>>
>>> It works for me on Ubuntu and Mac OS X also.
>>
>> Were you using Apple's bundled Ruby or something you compiled?
>>
>> James Edward Gray II
>
> Apple's /usr/bin/ruby.  (I'd answered before I saw your  
> clarification.)  I also just ran it fine with macruby.

It also seems to work in my locally compiled 1.9:

   $ sudo ruby_dev -r etc -ve 'Process.uid = Etc.getpwnam("james").uid'
   Password:
   ruby 1.9.1 (2008-12-30 patchlevel-0 revision 21203) [i386- 
darwin9.6.0]

James Edward Gray II