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# Copyright (c) 2011 Samuel G. D. Williams. <http://www.oriontransfer.co.nz>
# 
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require 'etc'

module RExec

	# 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

Version data entries

13 entries across 13 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
rexec-1.6.3	lib/rexec/priviledges.rb
rexec-1.6.2	lib/rexec/priviledges.rb
rexec-1.6.1	lib/rexec/priviledges.rb
rexec-1.6.0	lib/rexec/priviledges.rb
rexec-1.5.2	lib/rexec/priviledges.rb
rexec-1.5.1	lib/rexec/priviledges.rb
rexec-1.5.0	lib/rexec/priviledges.rb
rexec-1.4.1	lib/rexec/priviledges.rb
rexec-1.4.0	lib/rexec/priviledges.rb
rexec-1.3.0	lib/rexec/priviledges.rb
rexec-1.2.6	lib/rexec/priviledges.rb
rexec-1.2.4	lib/rexec/priviledges.rb
rexec-1.2.3	lib/rexec/priviledges.rb