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The pythonic way equal to "whoami"
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[QUOTE="Christopher Head, post: 4218404"] 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 [/QUOTE]
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