From: Brian Candler Date: 2003-05-01T06:18:31+09:00 Subject: Re: REAL_USER_ID / EFFECTIVE_USER_ID On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 05:54:04AM +0900, Daniel Bretoi wrote: > How do I determine my uid and so forth? > Any variable for it? puts Process.uid puts Process.euid # etc And there are accessors which can be used to do the equivalent of setuid() Regards, Brian.