Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>> I wonder if there could be a potential problem with using this approach
>> -
>> checking on $USER == root.
>>
>> Although it is a common practice, I think a superuser does not have to
>> be root.
>
>
> Yes, like the 'toor' account in FreeBSD... (disabled by default though)
>
Might be better to check if uid == 0, however there are some traps here
too as the most convenient methd ('id -u') is not support everywhere
(e.g Solaris 8). I think I used awk or sed on the plain old 'id' output
last time something like this came up.
Cheers
Mark