EVOLUTION-MANAGER
Edit File: permissions.js
/* * permissions.js * * Copyright (C) 2009-13 by RStudio, Inc. * * This program is licensed to you under the terms of version 3 of the * GNU Affero General Public License. This program is distributed WITHOUT * ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY, INCLUDING THOSE OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, * MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Please refer to the * AGPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt) for more details. * */ var posix = require('../../build/Release/posix'); exports.isSuperuser = isSuperuser; /** * Return true if the user is root */ function isSuperuser() { return process.getuid() == 0; } var processUser = {}; exports.getProcessUser = getProcessUser; function getProcessUser() { var uid = process.getuid(); if (!processUser.name || processUser.uid !== uid) { processUser = { uid: uid, name: (posix.getpwuid(uid) || {}).name } } return processUser.name; } exports.canRunAs = canRunAs; function canRunAs(user) { return isSuperuser() || user === getProcessUser(); }