PERL Beginners - How to set uid ?

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How to set uid ?

Prasad J Pandit

2005-08-03, 10:00 pm

Hello friends !
Does any one know how to set user-id in perl script? I
mean counter-part of setuid() in perl ??

Regards
-Pra

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John W. Krahn

2005-08-03, 10:00 pm

Pra

J Pandit wrote:
> Hello friends !

Hello,

> Does any one know how to set user-id in perl script? I
> mean counter-part of setuid() in perl ??

You mean that you don't want to use POSIX::setuid()? You might want to
lookup the $< and $> variables in:

perldoc perlvar

John
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