Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
I wonder if there could be a potential problem with using this approach
-
checking on $USER == root.
Although it is a common practice, I think a superuser does not have to
be root.
Yes, like the 'toor' account in FreeBSD... (disabled by default though)
Might be better to check if uid == 0, however there are some traps here
too as the most convenient methd ('id -u') is not support everywhere
(e.g Solaris 8). I think I used awk or sed on the plain old 'id' output
last time something like this came up.
Cheers
Mark
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