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Top Forums Programming Running a script as root in the script Post 303007375 by robertkwild on Wednesday 15th of November 2017 06:22:36 PM
Old 11-15-2017
Running a script as root in the script
hi all,

i think i have got the solution for this but want to run it past you guys first

when i run a script sometimes its necassary to sudo to root so it can create users, chmod etc etc, the normal way for me doing this is just to simply run the script as root

but i have created a user and that user can sudo up to root level so im thinking of doing the "if/then" statement with the "id" command

Code:
if [ id -u root -ne 0 ]; then
su
echo "type in the root password"


rest of the commands go here

is this a good way?

thanks,

rob
 

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