From: unbewusst.sein@... (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Une_B=E9vue?=)
Date: 2010-10-07T19:05:25+09:00
Subject: Re: testing if a script is run via sudo

Rahul Kumar <sentinel1879@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

I'm using too Mac OS X (zsh as default shell) i don't get samething as u
:

imyt% sudo echo $USER
Password:
yt
imyt% echo $USER
yt
imyt% 


however "yt" -is- a sudoer...
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