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May 11, 2022
12:30 PM
running as root/admin?
We'd like to make parts of our installer for Linux optional (or disabled) if the user is not running as root or via sudo. Is there a variable available to help with that? Or is there some best practice method for getting the effective user id?
Thanks.
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