RE: Determining user ID

[Martin, Jason H]

PrepModule happens as soon as it is reached. You are thinking of
actionsequence-based modules that happen after all class definitions.

It would probably be useful to have the username defined as a class as
well as a variable containing the username.

-Jason Martin

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> Jason Martin <jhmartin@toger.us> writes:
> > Write a module to do that and call it via PrepModule.
> 
> Huh???  That seems just dramatic overkill.  Furthermore, that 
> seems to run *after* classes are defined, not before, 
> therefore making it useless for the purpose of defining classes.
> 
> It seems entirely surprising that there isn't a class to 
> represent the user running cfagent.
> 
> That's a Useful Bit Of Information for any of the cases where 
> it is not being run by root.
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