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# Copyright, 2014, by Samuel G. D. Williams. <http://www.codeotaku.com>
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require 'etc'

module Process
	class Daemon
		module Priviledges
			# Set the user of the current process. Supply either a user ID
			# or a user name.
			#
			# Be aware that on Mac OS X / Ruby 1.8 there are bugs when the user id
			# is negative (i.e. it doesn't work). For example "nobody" with uid -2
			# won't work.
			def self.change_user(user)
				if user.kind_of?(String)
					user = Etc.getpwnam(user).uid
				end

				Process::Sys.setuid(user)
			end

			# Get the user of the current process. Returns the user name.
			def self.current_user
				uid = Process::Sys.getuid

				Etc.getpwuid(uid).name
			end
		end
	end
end

Version data entries

2 entries across 2 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
process-daemon-0.3.0	lib/process/daemon/priviledges.rb
process-daemon-0.1.0	lib/process/daemon/priviledges.rb