[Octo]

I'm writing a small command line program for OSX in C. I want the program to behave slightly differently if I'm running it as the super user. Is there any sort of isroot() function?


Thanks for any help

[lgerbarg]

Originally posted by Octo:
<STRONG>I'm writing a small command line program for OSX in C. I want the program to behave slightly differently if I'm running it as the super user. Is there any sort of isroot() function?


Thanks for any help</STRONG>

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier>
if (getuid() == <font color = blue>0</font>)
{
if(geteuid() == <font color = blue>0</font>)
{
<font color = brown>//Root</font>
} else {
<font color = brown>//Root with droped priviledges (seteuid())</font>
}
} else {
if(geteuid() == <font color = blue>0</font>)
{
<font color = brown>//Normal user running a setuid root program</font>
} else {
<font color = brown>//Not root</font>
}
}
</font>[/code]

Louis

[Octo]

Originally posted by lgerbarg:
<STRONG>

&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial"&gt;code:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;HR&gt;&lt;pre&gt;& amp;lt;font size=1 face=courier&gt;
if (getuid() == &lt;font color = blue&gt;0&lt;/font&gt; )
{
if(geteuid() == &lt;font color = blue&gt;0&lt;/font&gt; )
{
&lt;font color = brown&gt;//Root&lt;/font&gt;
} else {
&lt;font color = brown&gt;//Root with droped priviledges (seteuid())&lt;/font&gt;
}
} else {
if(geteuid() == &lt;font color = blue&gt;0&lt;/font&gt; )
{
&lt;font color = brown&gt;//Normal user running a setuid root program&lt;/font&gt;
} else {
&lt;font color = brown&gt;//Not root&lt;/font&gt;
}
}
&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;HR&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;

Louis</STRONG>

Excellent. Thank you very much, it works like a charm.