Re: Bug#3117: Tob needs whoami

[Michael Meskes <meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de>]

Dirk Eddelbuettel writes:
> 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? 
> 
> Does anybody have another idea or bash trick to this reliably without
> requiring /usr/bin/* or /usr/sbin/* stuff? 

How about setting NEEDROOT to 'no'? In case of a system backup I'm root
anyway and why not letting a user use tob to backup his own directory?

Michael

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