From a64a8d6cea828c7ef517986653e174154f3d94fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 20:53:47 -0400
Subject: paccache: allow running as root
The main motivation for this change is to allow this to be run as a cron
job.
Satisfies FS#29897 and some other undocumented requests for this.
Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
---
contrib/paccache.sh.in | 7 +------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/paccache.sh.in b/contrib/paccache.sh.in
index e8116721..ded42ed5 100644
--- a/contrib/paccache.sh.in
+++ b/contrib/paccache.sh.in
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ size_to_human() {
}
runcmd() {
- if (( needsroot )); then
+ if (( needsroot && EUID != 0 )); then
msg "Privilege escalation required"
if sudo -v &>/dev/null && sudo -l &>/dev/null; then
sudo "$@"
@@ -210,11 +210,6 @@ version() {
echo 'Copyright (C) 2011 Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>'
}
-if (( ! UID )); then
- error "Do not run this script as root. You will be prompted for privilege escalation."
- exit 42
-fi
-
OPT_SHORT=':a:c:dfhi:k:m:rsuVvz'
OPT_LONG=('arch:' 'cachedir:' 'dryrun' 'force' 'help' 'ignore:' 'keep:' 'move'
'remove' 'uninstalled' 'version' 'verbose' 'null')
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