On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 11:23:15AM +0100, Dr.Ruud wrote: > Chad Perrin schreef: > > Dr.Ruud: > > >> TIMTOWTDI. On the shell machines of my provider (FreeBSD) the "id" > >> approach will work, and the "/etc/group" one won't. > > > > I don't think that has anything to do with it being FreeBSD. > > That was and is also what I don't think. I only mentioned it because OP > mentioned "This should work on any *nix system".
Ahh, got it. I guess I misunderstood what you intended to say, then. > > > I'm typing this from a FreeBSD machine, and it works just fine. > > So some security layer is not implemented at your end. I don't know > which is implemented here, there are several ways to do something > similar. At a wild guess, I'd say it might be a chroot "jail". -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Ben Franklin: "As we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others we should be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any Invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
