groups?
Ed Wilts
ewilts at ewilts.org
Tue Mar 2 10:26:02 UTC 2004
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:26:33PM +0000, Alan Peery wrote:
> Ivan Cheniot wrote:
>
> >Where does it take the info? Can't find it in the environnement
> >variables.
>
> If it was stored in environment variables, the user would be able to
> change it--which would not be very secure.
Actually, there are read-only environment variables such as UID.
[ewilts at p6000 ewilts]$ echo $UID
500
[ewilts at p6000 ewilts]$ export UID=501
bash: UID: readonly variable
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