Bug#3117: Tob needs whoami

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>]

You (Dirk Eddelbuettel) wrote:
> On Fri, 24 May 1996, Michael Meskes wrote:
>
> > Package: tob
> > Version: 0.14-0
> >
> > /sbin/tob calls /usr/bin/whoami. But in an emergency /usr might not be
>
> Good point. If I try to replace the
> 	if [ 'whoami' != root ] ; then
> by another test for not being root, what should I use? Will _everybody_
> have set $USER to their idendity when they either login as, or su to, root,
> under every possible shell?

Well bash sets the UID, EUID, GID and EGID variables by itself.. so
a test like
	if [ $UID -ne 0 ]; then
would do..

Mike.
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