12-08-2016
You can't really run code as a different user without putting it in a subshell.
Using sudo inside the script would probably mean splitting off a few more scripts from it so you can put them all in sudoers appropriately, which would mean the parts you wouldn't want seen wouldn't be. If someone sees the code for the menu, who cares, as long as it hasn't got the passwords?
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