[Tutor] os.setuid(euid) function

[Danny Yoo]

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Kirk Bailey wrote:

> Ok, in the os module, is the command 'seteuid(wuid)'. I tried this with 'root'
> and as 0 (zero) as the arguement provided, and both ways it barks.
>
> Here is the error logged for each:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (innermost last):
>    File "/www/www.tinylist.org/cgi-bin/TLlistkill2.py", line 68, in ?
>      os.seteuid('root')				# DIG, this is important. We are setting
          ^^^^^^^

Hi Kirk,

Check your spelling.  The code says "seteuid", but you meant to write
'setuid'.


> AttributeError: seteuid

By "AttributeError", Python is complaining that it can't find the an
"attribute", that it can't find a value that's named 'seteuid' within the
'os' module.


Good luck!