From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2009-01-28T13:16:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Super User Can't Change UID?


On Jan 27, 2009, at 7:06 PM, James Gray wrote:

> 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
>

	It fails for me on my self compiled ruby 1.8.6 on osx but the built  
in ruby and my gentoo ruby works fine. No clue why.

-Ezra