geteuid(2) in java? (original) (raw)

Florian Weimer fweimer at redhat.com
Wed Feb 6 16:20:34 UTC 2013


On 02/04/2013 10:51 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:

On 04/02/2013 06:38, Weijun Wang wrote:

Need an equivalence of the geteuid() function that returns the effective user ID of the calling process.

There isn't an API for this.

And Hotspot really shouldn't be used from processes with EUID != UID.

-- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team



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