[sudo-users] How to know real uid/gid?

[Matthew Hannigan]

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:52:47AM +0200, Josef Wolf wrote:
> I've seen no replies yet to this mail.  Does this mean that there is
> no way to find out the real uid/gid of the user who called the command?

You've got env vars SUDO_UID and SUDO_GID ...

So I guess you can set[ug]id to those if you wanted to 'drop'
privs.  Be careful that they're not tainted though.

Matt