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

Were you root when you did it?

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing the uid
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 03, 2001 at 23:20 UTC
    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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