EVE(10.2) EVE(10.2)
NAME
eve, iseve - privileged user
SYNOPSIS
char eve[NAMELEN] = "inferno";
int iseve(void)DESCRIPTION
Eve is a null-terminated string containing the name of the privileged
user, often called the `host owner', in the Inferno system. The
default identity in native systems is and in hosted Inferno it is the
user who started emu(1). The initial process created by system ini‐
tialisation is given the eve identity.
Iseve returns true if the current user is eve. Several drivers use
iseve to check the caller's identity before granting permission to per‐
form certain actions. For example, the console driver allows only the
user eve to write a new identity into the /dev/user file. The privi‐
leges are strictly local and do not extend into the network (in partic‐
ular, to file servers).
Note that the comparison performed by iseve is case-sensitive, even
when running hosted on systems where usernames are case-insensitive.
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