Check if root before install or uninstall

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Check if root before install or uninstall #63

Closed Nardol closed 5 years ago

Nardol commented 5 years ago

Root privileges are required to install or uninstall DDOS-deflate. During this modification, a question came to my attention: why using Dash instead of Bash? Because we cannot use $EUID nor $UID in Dash, id -u looks like to make the job right.

jgmdev commented 5 years ago

On my system /bin/sh links to bash so I guess it depends on your distro, but it is better to use the id command like you did because that will always be available. Also as a side note it seems dash performs better than bash and consumes less memory.