Sometime it is necessary to find out if a shell script. is being run as root user or not.
When user account created a user ID is assigned to each user. BASH
shell stores the user ID in $UID variable. Your effective user ID is
stored in $EUID variable. You can
Old way...
You can easily add a simple check at the start of a script.:
Check the script. is being run by root user
#!/bin/bash
# Init
FILE="/tmp/out.$$"
GREP="/bin/grep"
#....
# Make sure only root can run our script.
if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then
echo "This script. must be run as root" 1>&2
exit 1
fi
# ...
New way: Using EUID
#!/bin/bash
# Init
FILE="/tmp/out.$$"
GREP="/bin/grep"
#....
# Make sure only root can run our script.
if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
echo "This script. must be run as root" 1>&2
exit 1
fi
# ...
Mount /dev/sdb1 only if you are a root
#!/bin/bash
if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
echo "You must be a root user" 2>&1
exit 1
else
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/disk2
fi