[PATCH] live-image: ask for sudo permissions instead of exiting

[Alex Hung]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 5:19 AM Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
wrote:

> On 18/06/2020 00:43, Alex Hung wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Hung <alex.hung at canonical.com>
> > ---
> >  live-image/fwts-frontend-text | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/live-image/fwts-frontend-text
> b/live-image/fwts-frontend-text
> > index 7fe4533f..4c397438 100755
> > --- a/live-image/fwts-frontend-text
> > +++ b/live-image/fwts-frontend-text
> > @@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ FWTS_TIME=`date +%H%M`
> >  #
> >  if [ $EUID -ne 0 ]; then
> >       echo "`basename $0`: must be executed with sudo"
> > -     exit 1
> > +     SELF="$(readlink -f "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")"
> > +     exec sudo -- "$BASH" -- "$SELF" "$@"
> >  fi
> >
> >  #
> >
> How does this work for distros that don't support sudo?
>

A good point. Let's drop this patch.

>
> Colin
>


-- 
Cheers,
Alex Hung
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