masquerade 0.3.0 → 0.4.0

data/CHANGELOG.rdoc

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 = Changelog
+== Release 0.4.0 - April 14, 2011
 
-== Release 0.30 - April 14, 2011
+* CHANGE: Use euid and eguid as opposed to uid and gid to switch user
+* CHANGE: Make summary more descriptive
+
+== Release 0.4.0 - April 14, 2011
 
 * CHANGE: Use yield instead of block.call to invoke block
 

data/Rakefile

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ require "rubygems"
 require "rake"
 require "echoe"
 
-Echoe.new("masquerade", "0.3.0") do |p|
-  p.description = "A user/group impersonator"
-  p.summary = "Run a block of code as another user/group."
+Echoe.new("masquerade", "0.4.0") do |p|
+  p.description = "A user/group impersonator. Allows you to run a block of code as another user or group."
+  p.summary = "A user/group impersonator. Allows you to run a block of code as another user or group"
   p.url = "http://rubygems.org/gems/masquerade"
   p.author = "Nitesh Goel"
   p.email = "nitesh@wikinvest.com"

data/lib/masquerade.rb

@@ -48,20 +48,8 @@ Returns the result of the block call. So you can do:
 module Masquerade
   def self.as(who)
     begin
-      current_uid = Process.uid
-      current_gid = Process.gid
-      if who.include? :user
-        user_struct = nil
-        if who[:user].kind_of? String
-          # get user info by name
-          user_struct = Etc.getpwnam(who[:user])
-        elsif who[:user].kind_of? Numeric
-          # get user info by uid
-          user_struct = Etc.getpwuid(who[:user])
-        end
-        # set the uid of the current process to that of the chosen user
-        Process.uid = user_struct.uid
-      end
+      current_uid = Process.euid
+      current_gid = Process.egid
       if who.include? :group
         group_struct = nil
         if who[:group].kind_of? String
@@ -72,13 +60,25 @@ module Masquerade
           group_struct = Etc.getgrgid(who[:group])
         end
         # set the gid of the current process to that of the chosen group
-        Process.gid = group_struct.gid
+        Process.egid = group_struct.gid
+      end
+      if who.include? :user
+        user_struct = nil
+        if who[:user].kind_of? String
+          # get user info by name
+          user_struct = Etc.getpwnam(who[:user])
+        elsif who[:user].kind_of? Numeric
+          # get user info by uid
+          user_struct = Etc.getpwuid(who[:user])
+        end
+        # set the uid of the current process to that of the chosen user
+        Process.euid = user_struct.uid
       end
       # run the block
       response = yield who
       # restore process uid and gid
-      Process.uid = current_uid
-      Process.gid = current_gid
+      Process.euid = current_euid
+      Process.egid = current_egid
       return response
     rescue Errno::EPERM
       raise PermissionsError, "You do not have permissions to impersonate this user or group"

data/masquerade.gemspec

@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
 
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name = %q{masquerade}
-  s.version = "0.3.0"
+  s.version = "0.4.0"
 
   s.required_rubygems_version = Gem::Requirement.new(">= 1.2") if s.respond_to? :required_rubygems_version=
   s.authors = ["Nitesh Goel"]
-  s.date = %q{2011-04-14}
-  s.description = %q{A user/group impersonator}
+  s.date = %q{2011-04-15}
+  s.description = %q{A user/group impersonator. Allows you to run a block of code as another user or group.}
   s.email = %q{nitesh@wikinvest.com}
   s.extra_rdoc_files = ["CHANGELOG.rdoc", "README.rdoc", "lib/masquerade.rb"]
   s.files = ["CHANGELOG.rdoc", "Manifest", "README.rdoc", "Rakefile", "lib/masquerade.rb", "masquerade.gemspec"]
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.require_paths = ["lib"]
   s.rubyforge_project = %q{masquerade}
   s.rubygems_version = %q{1.7.2}
-  s.summary = %q{Run a block of code as another user/group.}
+  s.summary = %q{A user/group impersonator. Allows you to run a block of code as another user or group}
 
   if s.respond_to? :specification_version then
     s.specification_version = 3

metadata

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification 
 name: masquerade
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
-  hash: 19
+  hash: 15
   prerelease: 
   segments: 
   - 0
-  - 3
+  - 4
   - 0
-  version: 0.3.0
+  version: 0.4.0
 platform: ruby
 authors: 
 - Nitesh Goel
@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ autorequire:
 bindir: bin
 cert_chain: []
 
-date: 2011-04-14 00:00:00 Z
+date: 2011-04-15 00:00:00 Z
 dependencies: []
 
-description: A user/group impersonator
+description: A user/group impersonator. Allows you to run a block of code as another user or group.
 email: nitesh@wikinvest.com
 executables: []
 
@@ -73,6 +73,6 @@ rubyforge_project: masquerade
 rubygems_version: 1.7.2
 signing_key: 
 specification_version: 3
-summary: Run a block of code as another user/group.
+summary: A user/group impersonator. Allows you to run a block of code as another user or group
 test_files: []