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[Jon Baer]

One possible way ...

<?php $user = `whoami`; echo $user; ?>

$php whoami.php
jonbaer
$sudo php whoami.php
root

- Jon

On Jul 26, 2007, at 8:29 PM, Michael B Allen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How does one determine if a command line PHP script is being  
> executed as root?
>
> If there's no posix extension there's no posix_getuid and if the user
> did 'su' and not 'su -' then the USER environment variable may not be
> root.
>
> Any other ways?
>
> Mike