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Re: Environment variables & system privilages
Jason Pearce wrote:
>
> Thanks. This works well enough. But I take it there is no universal
> command to check for system permissions.
> The procedure is just try a command that needs system privilages and
> watch the exit status.
Well, if you really want to check for this you could try comparing the
output of "id -u" to 18, the UID of the SYSTEM account. I don't know if
the system account's id varies across different versions (eg 98 vs.
2k3), though.
Brian
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