On 04/30/2014 10:55 AM, Bluejay Adametz wrote:
>> It seems to me that having a shell script prompt for the root password is a
>> recipe for disaster, but you can easily check to see if the user is already
>> root, and bail if not.
>
> I've been uneasy with that idea as well, although not to the point of
> imminent disaster ...
>
> Different sites might have different rules for gaining root access.
> Some might not even permit su and require everything to go through
> sudo, or some other mechanism, perhaps as part of an auditing/logging
> process.
>
> If it needs to run as root, I would just state that as a requirement,
> check for that condition, and output a clear error message if it's not
> met. Sometimes it's possible to "dumb things down" too much.
>
>                                                           - Bluejay Adametz
>
> Matter may be created or destroyed, but it
> may not be returned without a receipt.
>

Hi Bluejay,

No root, no shirt, no shoes, no service is the
way I wrote it.  Maybe not the shirt or shoes.

:-)

-T


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