Module: Process

Defined in:
lib/process.rb

Overview

Run a process as a different user Thanks to the “Ruby Cookbook” for this one

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.as_uid(uid = 0) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/process.rb', line 4

def as_uid(uid=0)
  old_euid, old_uid = Process.euid, Process.uid
  Process.euid, Process.uid = uid, uid
  begin
    yield
  ensure
    Process.euid, Process.uid = old_euid, old_uid
  end
end