in reply to Changing the uid

You can change $UID, $EUID, $GID, and $EGID as appropriate. perldoc perlvar has a little more info.

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Re: Re: Changing the uid
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 03, 2001 at 22:34 UTC
    umm ... that doesn't work. I changed $EUID, $UID, $<, and $>. None of them worked.
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      Were you root when you did it?
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        Yes I was root.
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