From: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 03:19:35 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: utils: Optionally run utilities as root
X-Git-Tag: v1.10.4~5
X-Git-Url: http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=petitboot;a=commitdiff_plain;h=3cf30cfa4f232d9a307c7983c40d0b1b2ca2e827;ds=sidebyside

utils: Optionally run utilities as root

In particular this fixes running pb-plugin executables from the UI since
the wrapper requires root to set up the environment.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
---

diff --git a/utils/pb-exec b/utils/pb-exec
index bfe13f6..d672ec1 100755
--- a/utils/pb-exec
+++ b/utils/pb-exec
@@ -1,7 +1,18 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
+PREFIX=""
+
+# Check if root required
+if [[ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]]; then
+	read -n 1 -r -p "Running as user $(id -un), run as root? (y/N)" key
+	if [ "$key" == "y" ]; then
+		PREFIX="sudo"
+	fi
+	printf "\n"
+fi
+
 # Run a program specified by Petitboot.
-$@
+$PREFIX $@
 echo "$0 ran '$@'"
 
 # Wait for the user to exit back to Petitboot.