in reply to Re: (solaris) pbrun and the real user id
in thread (solaris) pbrun and the real user id

Actually, it depends on the implementation of su. I ended up using the who am i approach but it isn't full proof.

sub whoami { return (split /\s+/, `/bin/who am i`)[0]; }

Jason L. Froebe

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