Sudoers list?

[Chris Bannister]

Daniel Carrera wrote:

> I don't want to force people to run this script as root. Running stuff 
> as root is a really bad habit. I want this script to be as non-root 
> friendly as possible. There is only one step that *might* warrant root 
> access and that's if the destination directory belongs to root.

Just run gksudo and test for whatever error code it gives if the user 
isn't in the sudoers file / gives the wrong password.

Failing that, run the script via sudo/gksudo and drop back to the users 
ID until you need to do the install?

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Chris Bannister
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