# New Ticket Created by Cory Spencer # Please include the string: [perl #126560] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126560 >
I recently committed the starts of a POSIX module to the p6 ecosystem and noticed that when using the POSIX::setuid and POSIX::setgid function calls, the $*USER and $*GROUP variables to not update as expected when program privileges change. I have attached a sample program demonstrating this below. Note that the program must be run as root. Here is the output on my machine: ~$ sudo perl6 ./uid-gid.p6 $*USER reports UID as: 0 $*GROUP reports GID as: 0 POSIX::getuid reports UID as: 0 POSIX::getgid reports GID as: 0 Dropping privileges to 'nobody' user... Privileges dropped. $*USER reports UID as: 0 $*GROUP reports GID as: 0 POSIX::getuid reports UID as: 65534 POSIX::getgid reports GID as: 65534
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