require_relative '../../spec_helper' describe "Process.uid" do platform_is_not :windows do it "returns the correct uid for the user executing this process" do current_uid_according_to_unix = `id -ur`.to_i Process.uid.should == current_uid_according_to_unix end end it "also goes by Process::UID.rid" do Process::UID.rid.should == Process.uid end it "also goes by Process::Sys.getuid" do Process::Sys.getuid.should == Process.uid end end describe "Process.uid=" do platform_is_not :windows do it "raises TypeError if not passed an Integer" do lambda { Process.uid = Object.new }.should raise_error(TypeError) end as_user do it "raises Errno::ERPERM if run by a non privileged user trying to set the superuser id" do lambda { (Process.uid = 0)}.should raise_error(Errno::EPERM) end it "raises Errno::ERPERM if run by a non privileged user trying to set the superuser id from username" do lambda { Process.uid = "root" }.should raise_error(Errno::EPERM) end end as_superuser do describe "if run by a superuser" do with_feature :fork do it "sets the real user id for the current process" do read, write = IO.pipe pid = Process.fork do begin read.close Process.uid = 1 write << Process.uid write.close rescue Exception => e write << e << e.backtrace end Process.exit! end write.close uid = read.gets uid.should == "1" Process.wait pid end it "sets the real user id if preceded by Process.euid=id" do read, write = IO.pipe pid = Process.fork do begin read.close Process.euid = 1 Process.uid = 1 write << Process.uid write.close rescue Exception => e write << e << e.backtrace end Process.exit! end write.close uid = read.gets uid.should == "1" Process.wait pid end end end end end it "needs to be reviewed for spec completeness" end