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

Yes I was root.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing the uid
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 04, 2001 at 00:32 UTC
    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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