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Enforcing Executing User on Bash Scripts

Sometimes I want to make sure that a script is *not* being run by the root user:

#!/bin/bash
if [[ $EUID -eq 0 ]]; then
  echo "Don't run as root!"
  exit 1
fi

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By jtanium – November 4, 2009

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