real UID and sudo.
William R Ward
bill at wards.net
Tue Nov 26 18:10:38 EST 2002
Todd C. Miller writes:
>In message <a409fa6ab6.a6ab6a409f at airtel.net>
> so spake (jvargasm):
>
>> when i execute:
>>
>> sudo who am i
>>
>> it returns the user i logged to the machine not root.
>
>That's because who uses the utmp file, it doesn't check uids.
>If you run /usr/ucb/whoami it will say "root".
Really? Hm. I always thought "whoami" was effective UID and "who am i"
was real UID.
What command will tell you both real vs. effective UID? We had a
similar problem at my work, and my manager decided to not use sudo as
a result.
--Bill.
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