[ale] Perl: checking UID in a perl script run from cron

[Rev. Johnny Healey]

does "whoami" work?

if not, what about the $USER environmental variable (though, it is not
reliable from a security standpoint).

On 8/28/06, Allan Neal <allanneal at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I have a perl script I am running from cron.  The script must run as a
> certain
> user because of ssh key authentication.  I would like a function in the
> script
> that checks the UID of the script to verify that it is running as the
> correct
> user before proceeding.
>
> I am using the "getlogin" function.  This works find from the command
> line,
> but when run from cron, it dumps out complaining that there is no login
> information to return.
>
> How can I get around this?  Is there anyway to check the UID of the script
> process itself without using "getlogin?"
>
> Allan
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