On Tuesday 30 October 2007 17:15, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > There is no guarantee that "root" or UID 0 actually have the privilege > to do this or that. Think Linux Security Modules (LSM)..
No, but that also wasn't the question here. For the ultimate check, there is little you can do other than try to do whatever privileged operation you are up to and check for failure. But doing this "root" check first sounds very sensible to me to catch the most common cause for problems and (equally important) give the user some useful error message. CU -- Stefan Hundhammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Penguin by conviction. YaST2 Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Nürnberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
