On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 15:08, Susanne Oberhauser wrote: > Nevertheless would you agree with me that for systmes claiming to run > on *Linux*, relying on the existence of a user 'root' should be ok? > This would allow portable software to have just *one* platform > specific backend for *all* flavors of Linux, and would ease porting of > such software to Linux.
Its a very bad habit but generally safe. If you want be more correct you canuse getpwuid(0) and ask the OS what root is
