Running a Script- and debugging.

[Rick Stevens]

Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:19:26AM -0400, Jim wrote:
> ....
>>> Also 'odd' things can happen if '.' and strange places
>>> are in your PATH.   Are you running it as root via "su",
>>> as root via "su -", as root via "sudo" or as yourself.
> ....
>>>    
>> Mitch you DID IT !!  su - instead of su
> 
> Glad to hear it..
> 
> OK gang out there.
> 
> What portable tricks out there might be included in a script
> to test for a user that typed "su" when "su -" is
> required.   An initial version would simply present 
> a hint but not exit.

Simply "echo $USER".  If it comes back as "root", then they did "su -".
If it comes back as something other than root, they just did "su".
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