[ros-users] [Discourse.ros.org] [Quality Assurance] sudo usage in rosdistro packages

Felix Ruess ros.discourse at gmail.com
Fri Dec 21 19:19:08 UTC 2018



A compromise could be to add a check if already running with super user rights to the scripts, something like

```# if not run as root, use sudo
if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
  SUDO="sudo"
else
  SUDO=""
fi

$SUDO command

```





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