Re: Username length inconsistencies.

[Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@tripnet.se>]

Dan Jacobowitz <drow@abcinternet.net> writes:

> On Sun, May 31, 1998 at 11:32:18PM -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
> > > > Sure, this would work, but I was talking about _shell_script_  way of doing 
> > > > that...
> > 
> > Wow, I think I'm going to open a zoo for root-checking methods:)
> > 
> So in that case (although if it doesn't have perl it doesn't deserve to
> be called a *n?x in my opinion) here's another for your zoo:

Agrees... :) Perl's the best!! :D

> But I think, that this is taking portability a little far.  Just
> include a nice little C source to do it and compile it at runtime if
> it's that important to you.

Or, can one expect awk to be in _every_ unix? In that case, here's a portable
way (with awk) for the zoo... :)

(This can be optimized quite a bit, but I'm feeling lazy today... :)

----- s n i p p -----
#!/bin/sh

ID=`id | awk -F= '{print $2}' | awk -F\( '{print $1}'`
if [ "$ID" = "0" ]; then
    iamroot
else
    iamnot
fi
----- s n i p p -----

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