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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Explaining behaviour of sudo bash "$0" "$@"; Post 303025418 by rbatte1 on Friday 2nd of November 2018 06:00:36 AM
Old 11-02-2018
If you move the sudo outside the if (and therefore run it every time) the code will call itself every time, and call itself, and call itself..........

The exit is necessary because otherwise you will drop through and try to run the remainder of the script as a non-root user. An alternate to the exit might be to drop the current script and re-start it with sudo like this:-
Code:
if [ $EUID != 0 ]; then
    exec sudo bash "$0" "$@";
fi



I hope that this helps,
Robin
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bioutil(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						bioutil(1)

NAME
bioutil -- tool for viewing/changing Touch ID configuration and listing/deleting enrolled fingerprints SYNOPSIS
bioutil {-r | -w [-f { 0 | 1 }] [-u { 0 | 1 }] [-a { 0 | 1 }]} | [-c] | [-p] | [-d <uid>] [-s] DESCRIPTION
bioutil provides the possibility of viewing and changing Touch ID configuration, both system-wide and user-specific. It also allows listing and deleting enrolled fingerprints. OPTIONS
-r, --read Read Touch ID configuration. -w, --write Write Touch ID configuration. -s, --system Indicates that system-wide configuration is to be read/written (user-specific configuration is the default) or that a system-wide list/delete operation is to be performed. -f, --function Enables (1) or disables (0) overall Touch ID functionality (system-wide configuration only). -u, --unlock Enables (1) or disables (0) Touch ID for unlock. -a, --applepay Enables (1) or disables (0) Touch ID for ApplePay (user-specific configuration only). -c, --count Provides number of enrolled fingerprints of the current user or of all users (when run with -s as an administrator) -p, --purge Deletes all enrolled fingerprints of the current user or of all users (when run with -s as an administrator) -d, --delete Deletes all enrolled fingerprints of the user with given user ID (must be run as an administrator) EXAMPLES
bioutil -r Reads Touch ID configuration for the current user. bioutil -r -s Reads system-wide Touch ID configuration. bioutil -w -u 1 Enables Touch ID for unlock for the current user. sudo bioutil -w -s -u 0 Disables Touch ID for unlock for the whole system. bioutil -c Prints the number of enrolled fingerprints of the current user. bioutil -p Deletes all enrolled fingerprints of the current user. sudo bioutil -c -s Prints numbers of enrolled fingerprints of all enrolled users. sudo bioutil -p -s Deletes all fingerprints from the system. sudo bioutil -s -d 501 Deletes all fingerprints of user 501. Darwin May 31, 2019 Darwin
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