in reply to Re: Changing the uid
in thread Changing the uid

umm ... that doesn't work. I changed $EUID, $UID, $<, and $>. None of them worked.

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Re: Re: Re: Changing the uid
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 03, 2001 at 22:45 UTC
    Were you root when you did it?
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      Yes I was root.
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        What happens when you run this as root:
        use English;

system('id');

$EGID=500;
$GID=500;
$EUID=500;
$UID=500;

system('id');

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        (replacing 500 with an appropriate uid/gid).
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[d/l]

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