Bug#3117: Tob needs whoami

[Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca]

  Raul Miller writes:
  Raul>  Perhaps tob doesn't need to be run as root?

I think it does. Otherwise you might not be able to read directories that
you'd want to back up.

  Raul> If it does (say, because some utility needs to be able to set
  Raul> gid/uid) maybe use that utility to see if it can do the right thing?
  Raul> [Or, if that's too complex, use /bin/chown]

I think
	if [ "$NEEDROOT" = "yes" ] ; then
		if [ $UID -ne 0 ]; then
			error "You need to be root to run tobs!"
	        fi
	fi
is most appropriate as it still allows the sys admin to set NEEDROOT to no in
/etc/tob/tob.rc to allow for, say, partial backups below $HOME.

I closed the bug and released tob-0.14-1 yesterday.

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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                              http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd