Ensuring that a script runs as the proper user 1

[ddrillich]

Good Day,

Occasionally, the SAs bring up our apps as root instead of the autonomy user. Yesterday it caused here a lot of grief. The apps are invoked by shell scripts. How can we guarantee that the script runs as autonomy, preferably within the script?

Regards,
Dan

 

[SamBones]

In Korn shell...

#!/usr/bin/ksh

[[ $(whoami) != "autonomy" ]] && echo "You must be logged on as autonomy to run this script" && exit

# The rest of your script goes here...

If anyone besides "autonomy" runs the script, the script will just print the error message of why it's not starting, then exit. Just slight changes needed for other shells.

 

[ddrillich]

Many thanks!!