15 May
2006
15 May
'06
5:31 p.m.
On 15 May 2006, at 09:23, Hans Hagen wrote:
(btw, is there a clever way to avoid this sudo stuff and become real root?)
This depends on what you want to do and on which system. On most unixes, you can say. You can in perl (and probably also ruby which I do not know) set all kinds of unixy things like real uid ($<) and effective uid ($>) as long as you already have the permissions. sudo -H -s to become root and also have root's home directory. G