Bug 81262

Summary:	/etc/profile checks that user is called root, instead of checking uid 0
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Yosef Meller <yosefm>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Test for $UID instead of `whoami`

Description Yosef Meller 2005-02-08 10:33:05 UTC

The superuser on a linux system doesn't have to be called root, it only needs to be the zeroth user. But /etc/profile checks the name rather than the number.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change user 0 name to 'gever' in /etc/passwd
2. Update /etc/shadow to match.
3. login as 'gever'

Actual Results:  
The result is immediately visible - the prompt is green instead of red.

Expected Results:  
Test for UID instead of name

Comment 1 Yosef Meller 2005-02-08 10:35:00 UTC

Created attachment 50755 [details, diff]
Test for $UID instead of `whoami`

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-02-08 10:40:54 UTC

looks like your patch is reversed and against baselayout-1.9.x ...

baselayout-1.11.x does this correctly:
if [ "$EUID" = 0 ] || [ "`/bin/whoami`" = 'root' ]; then