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[csnyder]

On 7/26/07, Michael B Allen <ioplex at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How does one determine if a command line PHP script is being executed as root?
>
> If there's no posix extension there's no posix_getuid and if the user
> did 'su' and not 'su -' then the USER environment variable may not be
> root.
>
> Any other ways?
>

For what it's worth, on my linux box, su root results in the same
thing as su - root, uid==0.

It may depend on the shell in use, I don't know, but it seems pretty
important unixwise to return the correct UID no matter what the
environment says.

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Chris Snyder
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