On 7/26/07, Michael B Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Chris Snyder http://chxo.com/ _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
