Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've always used EUID for the root check, eg: > > Which is just as bad. > No, it's better for the reason given: it doesn't require login as > root. Use of ((EUID)) is also quicker.
Capabilites are the write access to the target you want to modify in
your eselect module:
test_for_root() {
# checks if the user has rights to modify /usr/bin/
[[ -w "${ROOT}/usr/bin" ]] || die -q "You need to be root!"
}
That's how the the vim and Emacs eselect modules do it. In my opinion
the best way to check for the rights needed.
V-Li
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