detecting superuser condition in completion

detecting superuser condition in completion

[Borsenkow Andrej]

Sometimes some options make sense only for superuser. Unfortunately
testing for EUID is not enough because it does not work for completions
after sudo (at least).

Brute force method is to make _sudo set some variable and test for it
later. Any better idea? If not, I guess we should agree on variable name
or provide some helper like

_is_superuser && _wanted ...

Comments?

-andrej

Re: detecting superuser condition in completion

[Oliver Kiddle]

 --- Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru> wrote:
> Sometimes some options make sense only for superuser. Unfortunately
> testing for EUID is not enough because it does not work for
> completions
> after sudo (at least).

> Brute force method is to make _sudo set some variable and test for it
> later. Any better idea? If not, I guess we should agree on variable
> name
> or provide some helper like
> 
> _is_superuser && _wanted ...

A variable seems best to me. _is_superuser could only differentiate
root as opposed to any user (less useful after su <user> -c ...) and
it'd probably need a variable underneath to work anyway.

Oliver

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