On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:58:17 +0800 TheSaint <nob...@nowhere.net.no> wrote:
> Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > > os.geteuid > This return 0 for *root* . I don't know if it's a standard for all > distro. Mine is Archlinux. > I'd just like to avoid error caused by wrong access by user > It is. Until Linux capabilities, EUID==0 used to be special-cased in the kernel as being the test for binding to network ports <1024, bypassing filesystem access control, changing the system time, and so on. Since Linux caps, it's theoretically possible to use a different UID, but for compatibility and convenience, as well as because PID 1 (/sbin/init) is still invoked by the kernel as UID 0, everyone still does that. Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
