Re: help with sudo

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:15:28PM -0600, Chris McMahon wrote:
> Hi NMLUG...
> 
> For a complicated reason, I need to run a script that sets euid to
> several different values.  I have sudo ALL privileges, but I won't get
> root on the machine in question.
> 
> Under sudo, I can set euid once, but I haven't figured out a way to
> set euid more than once.  Here's a toy Ruby script that shows the
> problem:
> 
> #################
> euids = [2205, 2206, 2207]
> 
> euids.each do |id|
> 
>     Process.euid = id
>     puts "euid is: "
>     puts Process.euid
> 
> end
> ####################

Hi,

If you add "Process.euid = 0" after "puts Process.euid," it should work.

[Ruby is not my specialty, so the code above may not be the best practice.]

Hope this helps,

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Matt Rechkemmer
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