From: Rahul Kumar <sentinel1879@...>
Date: 2010-10-07T16:03:06+09:00
Subject: Re: testing if a script is run via sudo

Une B辿vue wrote:
> Is tehre a way to test if a ruby script is run as a sudoer user ?
> 

on my system, echo $USER gives root under sudo (mac os x).

So in ruby:

ENV['USER']

will return root under sudo user, and my name normally.

Note that here i have done a "sudo bash" first.

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