From: John W Higgins <wishdev@...>
Date: 2010-11-19T17:06:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling a bash script creates files as UID 501 ?

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Good Evening,

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter@googlemail.com>wrote:

> ...  I'm not sure I understand how this can produce the difference between
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> system "/usr/local/rvm/src/rvm/scripts/install --prefix /usr/local/rvm/"
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> and
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> sudo /usr/local/rvm/src/rvm/scripts/install --prefix /usr/local/rvm/
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> when the script apparently also uses sudo.  Do you have an explanation?
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While I don't even use rvm myself - it clearly is a very smart little set of
widgets that could easily be smart enough to differentiate the difference
between running it as sudo/root and a regular user. It's very possible that
it runs a chown to root only when run as sudo/root. That clearly is within a
reasonable distance from the rest of the magic being performed here. And
performed very very well it appears.

John

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