On 04/30/2014 10:38 AM, Jeffrey Anderson 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.
>
That is what I currently do. I am just wanting to get fancy:
if [ -z "`/usr/bin/whoami | grep root`" ]; then
echo ""
# ErrorSound
echo 'Dude! You must be root to do this.'
echo "Try"
echo " su root -c \"updateffth $1\""
echo 'Exiting. Bummer ...'
echo ""
Pause
exit 1
fi