From e5948745ee4b3e23a1d4c0685a9fddbd425a19b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hylke Bons <hylkebons@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:46:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Move root user check to linux shell script

---
 SparkleShare/Program.cs      | 10 ----------
 SparkleShare/sparkleshare.in |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/SparkleShare/Program.cs b/SparkleShare/Program.cs
index cfbd0ce0..4291d3bb 100644
--- a/SparkleShare/Program.cs
+++ b/SparkleShare/Program.cs
@@ -45,16 +45,6 @@ namespace SparkleShare {
 
         public static void Main (string [] args)
         {
-            // Don't allow running as root on Linux or Mac
-        /*    if ((SparkleBackend.Platform == PlatformID.Unix ||
-                 SparkleBackend.Platform == PlatformID.MacOSX) &&
-                new UnixUserInfo (UnixEnvironment.UserName).UserId == 0) {
-
-                Console.WriteLine (_("Sorry, you can't run SparkleShare with these permissions."));
-                Console.WriteLine (_("Things would go utterly wrong."));
-                Environment.Exit (-1);
-            }
-             */
             // Parse the command line options
             bool show_help       = false;
             OptionSet option_set = new OptionSet () {
diff --git a/SparkleShare/sparkleshare.in b/SparkleShare/sparkleshare.in
index 88302a5c..019088fe 100644
--- a/SparkleShare/sparkleshare.in
+++ b/SparkleShare/sparkleshare.in
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+if [[ $UID -e 0 ]]; then
+  echo "Cannot run as root. Things would go utterly wrong."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
 if [ "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" ]; then
   pidfile=${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/sparkleshare.pid
 else