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Old 05-17-2013
Check user id
Hi,

I am logged in to my unix box with functional id user1.

Code:
myhost://home/user1> id
uid=3748157(user1) gid=238(dev)

I am trying to execute a script hello.sh with user1 and I am passing a PID to hello.sh.

./hello.sh 145633

This pid <145633> is running with user7.

Thus, I need to check if the user executing the script and the user of the pid being passed must be the same, or else the script should terminate instantly with the echo message

Quote:
echo "The user is different than the user of the PID passed"
I would like to code which runs on most / all the operating systems i.e. most generic, thus avoiding OS specific commands as much as possible.

Can you please help ?
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Old 05-17-2013
Could you please post the code you have tried? We will try to correct it..
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